Today's QOTD: October 24, 2010

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Where we would be today without imagination?  From the musings and daydreaming of children, to the complexity of computers and our National Power Grid; imagination played a part in each and every item we use today.  For example:

• Thomas Alva Edison: The Phonograph and the Incandescent Light - two of MANY of his inventions - all through imagination
• Alexander Graham Bell: The Telephone ("Watson!  Come here, I need you!")
• Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak: The Personal Computer - the original Apple I (1975-1977)
• Bill Gates: Microsoft (which was begun as a Basic Computer Language for the Radio Shack TRS-80 line of computers - developed in 1977 with the Model I)
• Sam Walton: Discount Stores where everybody could afford products (WalMart begun in 1962)
• Galileo Galilei: The Telescope (would the Hubbel Space Telescope be bringing us those incredible images today?)
• Dr. Christiaan Barnard: The first successful human heart transplant on December 3, 1967
• Dick Loehr: Pioneering the concept of saving money and making money (via a Passive Income stream) and enriching the lives of hundreds of thousands of people using a easily duplicatable system (known today as "Team National") in 1997

As you can imagine, the list is endless.  The world is a better place because of those who "dreamed" the big dream and followed their dreams.

"On October 24, 1861, the first transcontinental telegraph system was completed, making it possible to transmit messages rapidly (by mid-19th-century standards) from coast to coast. This technological advance, pioneered by inventor Samuel F.B. Morse, brought an end to the Pony Express, the horseback mail service which had previously provided the fastest communication between the East and the West." (Source: The Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/oct24.html)

Today of all days, I salute those who dreamed, and those who continue to dream to help advance our lives technologically, medically and economically!

Think about it . . .

Yogi: 10/24/2010 11:15AM