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"There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea."
- Percy Williams Bridgman (1882-1961)
U. S. physicist, Nobel Prize, 1946

"There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something!"
-Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931).

"Thus, the task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees."
- Erwin Schrödinger 1887-1961

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are that good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
- Howard Aiken

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