#invent

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

#combination #come #deposited #gathered #images

I invent nothing, I rediscover. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#invent #nothing #rediscover

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another. ↗

— John M. Smith

#i #i think #invent #jargon #saves

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future. ↗

— Thomas Sankara

#act #clarity #dare #extreme #future

Children reinvent your world for you. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#our world #reinvent #world #you #your

The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up. ↗

— Pam Houston

#fear #growth #inertia #self-invention #change

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way. ↗

— Seth Godin

#competition #find #invent #method #new

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar. ↗

— Guy Fieri

#apiece #ate #back #booth #borrowed

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

By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the diaphragms in speaker systems, intercoms and telephones. He kept on into October without stopping, and finally achieved a device that would give tinny but recognizable sound from any vibrating surface - a wall, a floor, even the speaker's own cheek or forehead. ↗

— Damon Knight

#inventions #science-fiction #sounds #vibrations #experience