Dr. An Wang famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
-- Dr. An Wang

#Inspirational #Common Sense #Genius
My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
-- Dr. An Wang

#Technology #Needs #Philanthropy
You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.
-- Dr. An Wang

#Mistake #Risk #Important
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.
-- Dr. An Wang

#Progress #Lines #Trends
Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
-- Dr. An Wang

#Change #Taste #Individual
No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
-- Dr. An Wang

#Simple #Idaho #Matter
I founded Wang Laboratories . . . to show that Chinese could excel at things other than running laundries and restaurants.
-- Dr. An Wang

#Running #Chinese #Laundry

The things that make me different are the things that make me.
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
The time for common-sense immigration reform is now," Grayson said in a news release. "We must set forth a straightforward route to citizenship for the undocumented immigrants who already live in our communities, work for our businesses and want to give back to the country that they call home.
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.
What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct or to replace them by better ones. They had to do something quite different. They had to destroy one world and to replace it by another. They had to reshape the framework of our intellect itself, to restate and to reform its concepts, to evolve a new approach to Being, a new concept of knowledge, a new concept of science-and even to replace a pretty natural approach, that of common sense, by another which is not natural at all.
Common sense is genius in homespun.
Genius can never despise labour.
Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Dr. An Wang famous quotes

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