#invent

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#civilization #invention #know #mirror #you

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#because #before #big #big thing #desktop

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#asks #ever #inventor #other #people

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#company #get #him #inventor #market

I don't think I'm the one that invented glamour at all. ↗

— Helmut Lang

#i #invented #think

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

#discoveries #gain #great #inventions #material

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#career #comics #form #i #reinvent

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#architecture #capital #car #developed #extended

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#god #invented #loved #mankind #silly

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire. ↗

— Jonathan Gilbert

#result #right #right thing #sometimes #the right thing