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Woody Norris
American
Inventor
Born:
1938
Even
Everything
Interested
Invent
Inventor
You
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It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried.
Woody Norris
Work
Getting Older
Will
Older
Thinking
Embarrassing
Tried
Tackle
More
Fail
Know
Makes
Least
Than
Getting
May
Maybe
Century
Should
Even
Mundane
Gravity
All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear. Linearity means higher quality sound. Hypersonic sound is exactly the opposite: it's 100 percent based on non-linearity.
Woody Norris
Quality
Exactly
Percent
More
More And More
Higher
Higher Quality
Attempt
Perfectly
Know
Sound
Audio
Opposite
Linear
Means
Based
I've been really lucky as an inventor. I'm the happiest guy you're ever going to meet. And my dad died before he realized anybody in the family would maybe, hopefully, make something out of themselves.
Woody Norris
Family
You
Before
Meet
Out
Hopefully
Would
Something
Guy
Inventor
He
Make
Been
Died
Going
Maybe
Anybody
Happiest
Themselves
Realized
Really
Lucky
Dad
Ever
There's a smugness that goes with being a huge company. The big fish say, 'If it's so great, why didn't we invent it?' But how'd you like to be makin' buggy whips when cars came along?
Woody Norris
Great
You
Car
Invent
Big
Say
Along
Like
Makin
How
Came
Fish
Big Fish
Huge
Goes
Being
Company
Why
I invent by analogy. I thought, 'It's commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise, you can mix radio waves to get new frequencies.' So, I wondered, 'Why can't you mix sound to get new sounds?'
Woody Norris
You
Together
Thought
Invent
Analogy
Waves
Emerging
Colors
New
Smear
Likewise
Sound
Sounds
Mix
Wondered
Get
Commonplace
Them
Radio
Why
I'm interested in everything.
Woody Norris
Everything
Interested
I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.
Woody Norris
You
Met
Inventing
Inventor
Head
Lab
Sweating
Working
Ever
I wasn't much into girlfriends. I was too busy tinkering in the garage.
Woody Norris
Busy
Too
Girlfriends
Tinkering
Much
Garage
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