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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R. Buckminster Fuller
You
Mistake
Advances
Uncover
Most
Were
Get
Rid
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
R. Buckminster Fuller
People
Think
Way
Out
Terms
Accept
Fresh
Doing
Just
Conventional
Conventional Way
Should
Things
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison
Success
Work
World
Reward
Pleasure
Find
Calls
Greatest
Greatest Pleasure
Precedes
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison
Friendship
World
Favor
Would
Kings
Overalls
Friends
Swap
Whose
The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and the cause and prevention of disease.
Thomas A. Edison
Future
Doctor
Cause
Care
Will
Patient
Medicine
Frame
Give
Prevention
His
Disease
Diet
Human
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Thomas A. Edison
Opportunity
Ability
More
Than
Far
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas A. Edison
One Percent
About
Percent
Know
Anything
You affect the world by what you browse.
Tim Berners-Lee
You
Technology
World
Browse
Affect
A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.
Alexander Graham Bell
Man
Judgment
Own
Relates
Final
Himself
Should
Appeal
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles Kettering
You
Will
Stumble
Down
Something
Never
Stumbling
Perhaps
Least
Heard
Expecting
Sitting
Going
Anyone
Keep
Chance
Chances
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Charles Kettering
You
Way
Wrong
Always
Done
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
David Sarnoff
Happiness
Work
You
Peace
Yourself
World
Better
Mind
Live
Peace Of Mind
Others
Leave
Than
Little
Much
Found
Serve
Garner
There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
Gary Gygax
Character
You
Game
Experience
Yourself
Losing
Value
Whatever
Wild
Else
Secret
Wild West
Those
Rather
Winning
Involved
Genre
Sort
West
Get
Vicariously
Whether
Fantasy
Agents
Things
Imagining
The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.
George Eastman
World
Soon
Contents
Falls
Accomplishments
Itself
Behind
Moving
Company
Present
If we look at things scientifically, there is more than enough food and material goods on Earth to take care of all people's needs - if managed correctly.
Jacque Fresco
Food
Needs
People
Care
Enough
Earth
Correctly
More
Take
Take Care
Goods
Look
Material
Scientifically
Than
Things
If we arrive at a saner world in which the maximum human potential is cultivated in every person, our descendants will not understand why our world produced only one Louis Pasteur, one Edison, one Tesla, or one Salk, and why great achievements in our age were the products of a relative few.
Jacque Fresco
Great
Age
World
Will
Few
Every
Our
Relative
Our World
Only
Potential
Edison
Understand
Tesla
Arrive
Were
Cultivated
Louis
Person
Maximum
Human
Achievements
Which
Produced
Products
Descendants
Why
Great Achievements
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
Josiah Warren
Luxury
Own
Every
Ruined
States
Brought
Only
Excessive
Consumes
He
Almost
Individuals
Check
Empires
His
Effectual
Labor
Affords
Often
Legitimate
Bankruptcy
Which
Us
Paying
Now
Universal
Necessity
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Nikola Tesla
Fire
Power
First
Flame
Speed
Increasing
Civilisation
Blaze
Feeble
Spread
May
Mighty
Spark
Then
Next
Flickering
Ever
What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Time
People
Lost
Paralyzed
Faculties
Stuffed
Most
Overloaded
Educational
Mature
Happens
Process
Capabilities
Innate
By The Time
No matter what problem you encounter, whether it's a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there's an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.
Ray Kurzweil
You
Humanity
Problem
Overcome
Matter
Challenge
Own
Out
Find
Idea
Encounter
Personal
Whether
Grand
Your
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas A. Edison
Success
Invent
Proof
Sale
Sell
Want
Anything
Utility
Religion is all bunk.
Thomas A. Edison
Religion
Bunk
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
Tim Berners-Lee
Future
Technology
Seen
Past
Web
Envisaged
Still
Than
Bigger
Much
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.
Wilbur Wright
Travel
Space
Fly
Down
Birds
Our
Air
Ancestors
Through
Idea
Highway
Freely
Looked
Handed
Infinite
Soaring
Us
Who
Desire
I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.
Arvind Gupta
You
Business
Nobody Cares
Cares
Promise
About
Except
Nobody
Your
The world has a huge number of trillion-dollar problems wanting to be solved, and biology is the only way to do that.
Arvind Gupta
World
Problems
Biology
Way
Solved
Only
Huge
Huge Number
Wanting
Number
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