"To many of us now, computers, silicon..." - Quote by Ronald Reagan
To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.
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“We desire peace. But peace is a goal, not a policy. Lasting peace is what we hope for at the end of our journey. It doesn't describe the steps we must take nor the paths we should follow to reach that goal.”
“Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.”
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.”
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“It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement andrequirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification”
“I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.”
“There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.”