#invent

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#invention #quip #wings #writing #write

YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make something to explode. ↗

— James Patterson

#talent #talent

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done. ↗

— George Carlin

#invention #job

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#forgot #forgotten-past #inventions #literature #literature-quotes

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Doubt is the father of invention. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#father #invention

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#convenient #deity #drunk #excuse #getting

Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain-machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

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