DARPA Quotes
Bold lines on innovation, risk, and research
These quotes come from entrepreneurs and engineers reflecting on how government-backed research competitions and agencies have driven major technological breakthroughs, from early self-driving car prototypes to the roots of the modern internet. There's a shared thread of ambition here, tracing bold ideas back to public investment in basic research. For more on innovation and ambition, see our Bobby Darin quotes.
Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving...
From NASA putting a man on the moon to DARPA developing what later became the Internet, the U.S. government, through a host of different public agencies, has provided direct financing not only of basic research but also public venture capital;...
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In 2003, my mom actually gave me a call, which is funny because she works at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, and let me know that there's a cool competition with robots across the desert. And I thought this...
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