#invention

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists. ↗

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

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A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention. ↗

— Dean Kamen

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I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate. ↗

— Dean Kamen

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In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important. ↗

— Dean Kamen

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To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. ↗

— Dean Kamen

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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

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Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. ↗

— Larry Wall

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Mothers are the necessity of invention. ↗

— Bill Watterson

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In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

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