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 EngelbartIt 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 EngelbartIn 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 EngelbartThese days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.
Douglas EngelbartThe digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.โโThe better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.โโIn 20 or 30 years, youโll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.โโThe rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment they can tolerate.โโThe key thing about all the worldโs big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we donโt get collectively smarter, weโre doomed.
Douglas Engelbart