Famous quotes by Inventors

Small: When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital s
Tim Berners-Lee
"When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last"
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor
Small: When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it
Thomas Edison
"When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and downlo
Tim Berners-Lee
"What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice"
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor
Small: Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They dont care as much about attractive sites and
Tim Berners-Lee
"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design"
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor
Small: Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases
Tim Berners-Lee
"Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases"
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor
Small: We shouldnt build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, alth
Tim Berners-Lee
"We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on"
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor
Small: We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically.
Tim Berners-Lee
"We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal"
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor
Small: The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the smal
Tim Berners-Lee
"The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large"
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor
Small: The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well
Tim Berners-Lee
"The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation"
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor
Small: The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere shoul
Tim Berners-Lee
"The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it"
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor
Small: The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device
Tim Berners-Lee
"The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device"
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor
Small: What you are will show in what you do
Thomas Edison
"What you are will show in what you do"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: What a mans mind can create, mans character can control
Thomas Edison
"What a man's mind can create, man's character can control"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: We dont know a millionth of one percent about anything
Thomas Edison
"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the questio
Thomas Edison
"Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity
Thomas Edison
"To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: To have a great idea, have a lot of them
Thomas Edison
"To have a great idea, have a lot of them"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward
Thomas Edison
"They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: Theres a way to do it better - find it
Thomas Edison
"There's a way to do it better - find it"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so ab
Thomas Edison
"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that wont work
Thomas Edison
"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied m
Thomas Edison
"Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: Religion is all bunk
Thomas Edison
"Religion is all bunk"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time
Thomas Edison
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But
Thomas Edison
"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other
Thomas Edison
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets dis
Thomas Edison
"Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth
Thomas Edison
"Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up
Thomas Edison
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up"
Thomas Edison, Inventor
Small: The important thing is the diversity available on the Web
Tim Berners-Lee
"The important thing is the diversity available on the Web"
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor