For many of you it is a long weekend, for me today is a much needed day off from the grind of tech reporting. As such, I thought I would gather together a few tidbits of wisdom to help get you through the day. If you don’t actually learn something, you should at least pick up enough interesting quotes to impress your family over the next few days.

Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. –Francis Bacon

Elisha Gray

As to Bell’s talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles… its commercial values will be limited. –Elisha Gray

Jeff Hawkins

Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents. –Jeff Hawkins

Paul Allen

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too. –Paul Allen

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Charles Kettering

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. –Charles Kettering

Douglas Engelbart

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

Lee De Forest

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility. –Lee De Forest

John Romero

In marketing I’ve seen only one strategy that can’t miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last. –John Romero

Nikola Tesla

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. –Nikola Tesla

Robert Moog

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it’s so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it’s just as hard as it always was to make good music. –Robert Moog

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