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Invention And Entrepreneurship Isn't About Pure Technology. Most People Take Whatever They See In Front Of Them And Relate It To Something They Understand. For At Least Ten Years After Ford Started Building Cars, People Called Them Horseless Carriages. It Wasn't Obvious To Call It A Car. They Used To Call The Radio 'the Wireless.' Innovation Is Much More About Changing People And Their Perceptions And Their Attitudes And Their Willingness To Accept Change Than It Is About Physics And Engineering.

People Take The Longest Possible Paths, Digress To Numerous Dead Ends, And Make All Kinds Of Mistakes. Then Historians Come Along And Write Summaries Of This Messy, Nonlinear Process And Make It Appear Like A Simple, Straight Line.

Most Of The Time You Will Fail, But You Will Also Occasionally Succeed. Those Occasional Successes Make All The Hard Work And Sacrifice Worthwhile.

We Cant Live Any More In A World Which Is Based On Stuff And Not Ideas. If You Want To Live With The World Of Stuff, Were All Doomed.

In The Culture Of America, In A Free Culture, You Get What You Celebrate. And In This Culture, We Have Two Obsessions, Become A Group That Becomes A Group That Celebrates Sports Heroes And Entertainment Heroes. There's No Room Left For Kids To See Even A Little Bit Of The Opportunities To Really, Really Get Excited About Becoming An Inventor, An Engineer, Or A Scientist, A Problem Solver.