Dr. An Wang quotes
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“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.”
-- Dr. An WangSource : "Lessons: An Autobiography". Book by An Wang, September 22, 1986.
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“My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.”
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“You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.”
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“Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future.”
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“Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.”
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“No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.”
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“I founded Wang Laboratories . . . to show that Chinese could excel at things other than running laundries and restaurants.”
-- Dr. An Wang
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“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.”
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Source : "Galileo to Plato". Journal of the History of Ideas, 1957.
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“Genius can never despise labour.”
Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire”
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“Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.”
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“Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.”
Source : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
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