#invent

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#been #chance #extinct #good #had

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

I think the two greatest inventions in the history of mankind are the remote control and the fingernail clipper. Now, if someone could just combine those two, I’d be very eager to clip my nails from across the room. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #invention #surreal #funny

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#creativity #invention #originality #writing #creativity

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#experience #gets #invents #labeled #live

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#fairy #her #invention #lots #many

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

#being #celebrity #context #damages #i

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#because #become #circumstances #dream #few

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#book #cliches #danger #i #i think