#invent

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#constraints #drives #frugality #get #i

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps. ↗

— Bob Black

#daily life #edge #life #maps #marching

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#existed #hadn #horribly #i #invented

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. ↗

— Peter Davison

#enable #invented #people #poetry #prayers

You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#began #benefited #first #how #international

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now. ↗

— Eminem

#came #change #done #i #much

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. ↗

— Douglas Engelbart

#digital #even #far #invention #more

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#admirers #ago #been #buried #cemetery

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#bad #did #everything #had #his

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#beginning #beings #chaotic #contrary #depressing