“You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.”
As quoted in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 146, no. 1, (March 2002), p. 115
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