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🇺🇸Thomas Jefferson

Politics

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."

"This conference was worse than a Rorschach test: There's a meaningless inkblot, and the others ask you what you think you see, but when you tell them, they start arguing with you!"

"Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards."

"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."

"We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world."

"truovasi di miglio i(n) miglio bone osteriee. (Ancient Italian)"

"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer."

"My attitude was always to keep open, to keep scanning. I think that's how things work in nature. Many people are close-minded, rigid, and that's not my inclination."

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🇺🇸Buckminster Fuller

Philosophy

high-tech architecture

1895–1983

"There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity."

"How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!"

"The vendors seemed comical, so intent were they on their slivers of meaningless profit, all unaware of the desolate ages that lay in their own near future, their own imminent deaths."

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."

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🇧🇷Steve Jobs

Business

"I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do."

"Again time passed. In one of the remoter galaxies a supernova flamed, and on a rocky, barren world a small living thing squirmed experimentally—and to mankind the one event was just as important as the other."

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William John Macquorn Rankine

Science

1820–1872

"A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory."

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🇫🇷Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Literature

1900–1944

"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."

"From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices."

"Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind."

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🇮🇹Christopher Columbus

Technology

1451–1506

"The Admiral ordered the lord to be given some things, and he and all his folk rested in great contentment, believing truly that they had come from the sky, and to see the Christians they held themselves very fortunate."

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🇺🇸Richard Stallman

Technology

free software movement

b. 1953

"GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it."

"The pilots I worked with in the aerospace industry were willing to put on almost anything to keep them safe in case of a crash, but regular people in cars don't want to be uncomfortable even for a minute."

"The theoretical aspect. Here interest centers on:"

"Sergei Eisenstein Is Dead In Moscow; Obituary, New York Times, February 12, 1948"

"Growing up, I believed that people of African origin were born engineers and inventors. That belief boosted my confidence, which has become my greatest strength."

"From Bad Boy of Music, on his life as a concert pianist:"

"The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 was awarded jointly to Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy"

"When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer, ... But I guess that was exactly what I did."

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🇺🇸Charles Hard Townes

Science

1915–2015

"It's a fantastically specialized universe, but how in the world did it happen?"

"e should never admit of the propriety of the will or volition of one animal being the agent of another, unless we should perceive its own good to result from it, or that justice should require it."

"Listen to the technology; find out what it's telling you."

"Download: The True Story of the Internet: Part 1"

"The Lost Art of Healing -- interview from the public radio program "Humankind"

"Although many of us consider ourselves forward-thinkers, we still cling tenaciously to the old values of the monetary system."

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🇬🇧Frederick W. Lanchester

Mathematics

1868–1946

"Mr. Lanchester seems to be the first man who has considered and mastered the fact and theory of every phase of the subject before sitting down to write."

"To be a star is~to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty."

"I urge telecommunications regulators to develop a commercial strategy for delivering effective access to the continent."

"The strength of the imagination, its enriching power and excitement, lies in its interplay with reality—physical and emotional."

"The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better."

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