Everything that can be invented has been invented.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.

What is research, but a blind date with knowledge.

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.

A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. read more

A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the read more

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Ita!0 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.