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If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.
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Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.
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The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.


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I'm fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I'm fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies.
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Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.


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I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.'


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Without 'The Brady Bunch,' my guess is I would have become an engineer working on new plastics or something.
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My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.


Edward Tufte
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My mother and father were supportive. But in an Italian family, you kind of work with your hands, or you are an engineer or a doctor. But an actor was something they couldn't get hold of. They were afraid I wouldn't be able to make a living, and for many years, they were right.
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My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.
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We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
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My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was good or not.
Dorothy Fields
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I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.
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I loved my mother and father.


Roger Moore
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
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Google transformed the way most of us get our information with a search engine that enables us to find citizen-created media content alongside the work of professionals.
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I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I loved so much were actually edited by the same person who edited my book, too. I loved 'Angela's Ashes.' I loved 'Glass Castle' so much.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.


V. S. Naipaul
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My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.
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My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages, not least of which, for me, was his love of singing, which gave music a central place in our lives.
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