#invented

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#function #had #invented #mind #new

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#anymore #been #better #cases #copies

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#company #decade #eight #graphical #had

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#fool #i #i wonder #invented #kissing

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#any #baseball #beyond #big #conversation

I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it. ↗

— Eugene Chadbourne

#almost #bluegrass #comedy #different #different styles

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it! ↗

— John Ciardi

#every #fun #game #hard #invented

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#artist #cat #elephant #giraffe #god

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients. ↗

— David Leavitt

#cannot #close #combination #distinguish #end

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#being #body #cheque #class #doing