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A lot of our work at Intel was on the automotive side: in the head unit, engine, and brake controllers.
— Brian Krzanich
Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.
— Stephen Hawking
Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?
— Barack Obama
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.
— Paul Graham
Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We could perform in space or be the first band to play moon, but we want to be the first 'Star Wars' band.
— Olly Alexander
I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.
— Mark Cuban
Startups often have to do dubious things.
— Paul Graham
Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
— Thomas Edison
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
— Thomas Edison