#invent

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#always #because #calculated #carefully #controlled

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#anything #christianity #ever #far #heard

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#books #god #had #harvard #invented

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#better #better mousetrap #comes #government #invent

And it has to do with having no inventory or stockpiles on the shelf, but items arrive as you need to build your product. What that means is that it's much more difficult to actually find stockpiles of already built weapons. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#already #arrive #build #built #difficult

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery. ↗

— Keith Richards

#had #how #invent #life #machinery

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#called #integrity #invention #may #mother

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#back #billion #go #invented #keep

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man. ↗

— Chris Rock

#invented #man #school #shootings #stolen

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#because #change #deals #death #familiar