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Vannevar Bush

“A belief may be larger than a fact.”

- Vannevar Bush

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“Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.”

- Vannevar Bush

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“If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.”

- Vannevar Bush

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“Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.”

- Vannevar Bush

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“The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.”

- Vannevar Bush

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“To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.”

- Vannevar Bush

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“As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.”

- Vannevar Bush

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“Machines with interchangeable parts can now be constructed with great economy of effort. In spite of much complexity, they perform reliably. Witness the humble typewriter, or the movie camera, or the automobile.”

- Vannevar Bush

Source/Notes: As We May Think (1945)

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“A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.”

- Vannevar Bush

Source/Notes: As We May Think (1945)

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“The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut. It takes pictures 3 millimeters square, later to be projected or enlarged, which after all involves only a factor of 10 beyond present practice.”

- Vannevar Bush

Source/Notes: As We May Think (1945)

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Vannevar Bush

“Adding a column of figures is a repetitive thought process, and it was long ago properly relegated to the machine. True, the machine is sometimes controlled by the keyboard, and thought of a sort enters in reading the figures and poking the corresponding keys, but even this is avoidable.”

- Vannevar Bush

Source/Notes: As We May Think (1945)

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Vannevar Bush

“There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.”

- Vannevar Bush

Source/Notes: As We May Think (1945)

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Vannevar Bush

“There may be millions of fine thoughts, and the account of the experience on which they are based, all encased within stone walls of acceptable architectural form; but if the scholar can get at only one a week by diligent search, his syntheses are not likely to keep up with the current scene.”

- Vannevar Bush

Source/Notes: As We May Think (1945)

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Vannevar Bush

“Only a small part of the interior of the memex is devoted to storage, the rest to mechanism. Yet if the user inserted 5000 pages of material a day it would take him hundreds of years to fill the repository, so he can be profligate and enter material freely.”

- Vannevar Bush

Source/Notes: As We May Think (1945)

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