#invent

My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#dad #had #i #i think #inventor

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. ↗

— John McPhee

#go #inventing #letters #liked #without

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

#acute #arts #external #great #great talent

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. ↗

— Fridtjof Nansen

#keep #line #never #retreat #wretched

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge. ↗

— Seymour Papert

#create #invention #knowledge #provide #rather

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#aptly #author #being #book #first

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket. ↗

— Henry Chadwick

#game #had #invented #little #most

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#any #baseball #beyond #big #conversation

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge. ↗

— Hayden Christensen

#acting #because #bit #escape #gives

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#avoid #challenging #change #copy #course