Top 11 Quotes by Douglas Engelbart

The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.

The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.

Douglas Engelbart

Get Better, Faster

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

Douglas Engelbart

Ideas, Problem, These Days

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Douglas Engelbart

Writing, Technology, Digital Revolution

The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed.

Douglas Engelbart

Keys, Digital Revolution, World

"Intelligence in the Internet Age". New York Times, September 19, 2005.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

Douglas Engelbart

Funny, Life, Motivational

"Computerworld". Book by Douglas Engelbart, p.42, June 22, 1992.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

Douglas Engelbart

Technology, Hands, Years

Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems

Douglas Engelbart

Problem, Coping, Mankind

It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say 'if this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away'.

Douglas Engelbart

Dream, Country, Struggle

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”“The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.”“In 20 or 30 years, you’ll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.”“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment they can tolerate.”“The key thing about all the world’s big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don’t get collectively smarter, we’re doomed.

Douglas Engelbart

Writing, Keys, Hands

Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc., which will appear in the next generation of human organizations will drive our present organizational forms, with their clumsy nervous systems, into extinction.

Douglas Engelbart

Organization, Design, Perception