Gordon Gould Quotes

• That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

  Gordon Gould

  Attitude, Doe, Today

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• But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.

  Gordon Gould

  Law, Ignorant, Able

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• I would have had my patent long, long ago, and it would have run out long, long ago. I would have made, maybe, $100.000, much less that the patent has brought me now.

  Gordon Gould

  Running, Long Ago, Patents

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• Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different .

  Gordon Gould

  Thinking, Different, Lawyer

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