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Nikola Tesla

Technology

1856–1943

"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."

"I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'."

"the most important part of open source is that people are allowed to do what they are good at" and "all that stuff is just details and not really important."

"Ward Cunningham discusses Eclipse, Wiki and Agile Development" at SQLSummit.com"

"I'd just like to take this moment to point out that C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string."

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Bassel Khartabil

Technology

free-culture movement

1981–2015

"Aiki lab is a place for sharing, creation, collaboration, research, development, mentoring, and of course, learning."

"I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and — ta-da!— the World Wide Web."

"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important."

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🇮🇹Christopher Columbus

Technology

1451–1506

"I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of this great river, and by this sea which is fresh."

"I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime."

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."

"It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive."

"Mansplaining is a sexist term designed to silence men via gender shaming."

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🇺🇸Julius Erasmus Hilgard

Technology

1825–1891

"The measurement of the angles was made by Mr. J. E. Hilgard, whose zeal and the ability with which he has discharged these duties deserve notice here, as they have received it in the reports of the chief of his party."

"Cybernetics is the science or the art of manipulating defensible metaphors; showing how they may be constructed and what can be inferred as a result of their existence."

"It's the little things that make Freedom become Not Freedom."

"Yet at every turn, vested interests oppose even technological changes... And so it goes."

"Public transport is functionality for people not engineers."

"The plan of the present paper is to discuss properties of systems more or less abstractly; that is to define system and to describe the properties that are common to many systems and which serve to characterize them all."

"At this point in my life, I don’t worry about telling a literary story or the right story; I tell the story I want to tell, the story that makes me feel alive, the questions I want to answer."

"very structure has a resistant function to fulfill... to ensure ...the static equilibrium of the structure for a long period of time."

"I dare boldly conclude that the most valiant armie of the best approved soldiers, may easily even with a small band of ingenious scholars and Artists be utterly overthrown and vanquished."

"When you see a very beautiful face, it’s stunning, and you yourself become stupefied. So you project your own stupidity onto the person you’re looking at."

"The difference between a hacker and consumer is a consumer says, "I wish it would work this way." A hacker says, "I've got a screwdriver and a few minutes."

"I'm not concerned with body building; I'm just trying to make people normal human beings."

"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."

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we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!

Technology

b. 1955

"Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok"

"Prescription for Survival -- interview from the public radio program "Living On Earth"

"Hall of Fame: Harold Chestnut at Edisontechcenter.org"

"Microsoft fully understands it can't beat Apple, Amazon or Google by chasing them, but it can beat them if it both revisits its old embrace and extend strategy, and then pulls a Steve Jobs to change the market."

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🇺🇸Rebecca Wirfs-Brock

Technology

b. 1953

"The goal of is to improve encapsulation. It does so by viewing a program in terms of the client/server model."

"n order of magnitude quantitative change in technology can make a qualitative change in the lifestyle we enjoy."

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

"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."

"You can't lose your nerve for the big failure because you need exactly the same nerve for the big success."

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"Everyone was muttering about Bill Clinton's philanderings before he came to visit, but once he walked into the room none of the women - or men - could get enough of him. He rather ignored me: my hair wasn't big enough."

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