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"Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.“
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"In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important."
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"An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work."
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