Engelbart Douglas Quotes & Sayings

No baggage - there was the secret of existence. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. — Douglas Engelbart

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist. — Douglas Engelbart

The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better. — Douglas Engelbart

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first! — Katie Price

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world. — Douglas Engelbart

The truly adult view [ ... ] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed. — Richard Dawkins

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal. — Nigel Dennis

I miss the sound of your voice
And I miss the rush of your skin
And I miss the still of the silence
As you breathe out and I breathe in — Matt Nathanson

I consider it a great honour that my movie Drive inspired so many wonderful artists to come together and create one ultra-cool glam experience. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design ... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction. — Douglas Engelbart

Sometimes I apologize. It started that way and we never did change it. — Douglas Engelbart

What are you, Zombie Slayer Barbie?"
The big man in the back barked a laugh. "You'll pay for that one. — Aria Kane

The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed. — Douglas Engelbart

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. — Douglas Engelbart

Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. — Modest Mouse

It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say 'if this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away'. — Douglas Engelbart

Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems — Douglas Engelbart