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I am interested in the future because I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

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Topic

The future

Speaker

Charles F. Kettering

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Kettering, Charles F. Spoken during a luncheon. Joint luncheon held by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Advertising Club. July 1939, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.

Nikola Tesla

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Topic

Predicting the future Technological progress

Speaker

Nikola Tesla

Source

Collier's Magazine

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Tesla, Nikola. "When Woman is Boss." Interviewed by John B. Kennedy. Collier's magazine, 30 Jan. 1926.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Buckminster Fuller

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Topic

Man and nature Government

Author

Buckminster Fuller

Source

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Fuller, Richard Buckminster. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Simon and Schuster, 1969, ch. 4.

The horseless vehicle is the coming wonder.

Thomas Edison

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Topic

Cars

Speaker

Thomas Edison

Source

New York World

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1895 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Edison, Thomas Alva. Interview. New York World, 17 Nov. 1895.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Buckminster Fuller

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Topic

Man and nature

Author

Buckminster Fuller

Source

Minneapolis Tribune

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Fuller, Richard Buckminster. "Bucky Fuller Gives Us 8 Years." Interviewed by Larry Batson. Minneapolis Tribune, 30 Apr. 1978.

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

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Topic

Hard work Work

Author

Thomas Edison

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Edison, Thomas A. Quoted in Thomas A. Edison: The Authentic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor, written by Francis Miller. Stanley Paul, 1932.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison

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Topic

Hard work Genius

Speaker

Thomas Edison

Source

Harper's Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Edison, Thomas. Quoted in "Edison in His Laboratory" by Martin André Rosanoff. Harper's Monthly, Sept. 1932.

For most of my life I refused to work at any problem unless its solution seemed to be capable of being put to commercial use.

Thomas Edison

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Topic

Innovation Profit motive Capitalism

Speaker

Thomas Edison

Source

New York Sun

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Edison, Thomas Alva. Interview. New York Sun, Feb. 1917.

Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile wind. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest 57 seconds. Inform press. Home Christmas.

Orville Wright

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Topic

Flying Moments of discovery

Author

Orville Wright

Medium

Telegram

Language

English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Wright, Orville. Telegram to Reverend Milton Wright. 17 Dec. 1903.

Current Citation

Wright, Orville. Quoted in To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers, written by Wendie C. Old. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002.

Improvements succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superseded their utility.

Charles Babbage

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Topic

Technological progress Progress Industrial revolution

Author

Charles Babbage

Source

On the Economy of Manufactures

Genre

Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1832 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Babbage, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. London: Charles Knight, 1832, ch. 29.

Current Citation

Babbage, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 29.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Nikola Tesla

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Topic

Robots

Speaker

Nikola Tesla

Source

A Machine to End War Liberty magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Tesla, Nikola. "A Machine to End War." Interviewed by George Sylvester Viereck. Liberty Magazine, 9 Feb. 1935.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

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Topic

Credulity Doubt and skepticism

Author

Orville Wright

Source

Letters of Orville Wright

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Wright, Orville. "Orville Wright to George A. Spratt, Dayton, Ohio, June 7, 1908." Miracle at Kitty Hawk: The Letters of Wilbur and Orville Wright, edited by Fred. C. Kelly. Da Capo Press, 2002. Originally a letter to George A. Spratt. 7 June 1908.