#invent

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

Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars. ↗

— Leo Baekeland

#because #dollars #eastman #had #i

No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway. ↗

— William Bernbach

#anyway #apart #exist #fall #gimmick

I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#capacity #certainly #days #did #does

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer. ↗

— Simon Callow

#becoming #characters #find #great #great writer

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket. ↗

— Henry Chadwick

#game #had #invented #little #most

I am an inventor of music. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#i #i am #inventor #music

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#enough #invent #newspapers #ridiculous #suit

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. ↗