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If I need something, I'll invent it.


Mickey Spillane


#invent #need #something

He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.


Dava Sobel


#invention #inventors #science #science

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.


Ralph Waldo Emerson


#individuality #invention #beauty

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.


Mark Twain


#inventors #plagiarism #men

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.


Thomas More


#invention #mankind #vanity #men

Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself.


Katelyn S. Irons


#creativity #inspirational #invention #inspirational

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.


Alexander Graham Bell


#country #greatest #inventors #men #newspaper

I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it.


Eugene Chadbourne


#almost #bluegrass #comedy #different #different styles

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.


Barry Commoner


#atomic #atomic bombs #bombs #consequence #fact

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.


Michel Foucault


#date #easily #end #invention #man






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