#invent

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#invented #person #phrase #poor

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by. ↗

— Alan Coren

#chocolate #clock #cuckoo #give #invented

I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature. ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

#before #being #cast #character #charge

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#invention #make #sense #started #world

The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#collaboration #content #network #opening #possibilities

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#forgets #homo #homo sapiens #inventions #invents

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.' ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#biography #considered #contains #degree #fiction

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. ↗

— Barack Obama

#because #companies #could #created #get

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. ↗

— Roger von Oech

#father #invention #may #mother #necessity

The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

#any #bunch #corporation #destruction #form