#invention

Afternoon classes - that evil invention! ↗

— John Gresham Machen

#classes #evil #invention

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#ages #gunpowder #humanity #inventions #love

Necessity... the mother of invention. ↗

— Plato

#mother #necessity

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. ↗

— Henry Miller

#admittedly #even #fabric #fiction #invention

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. ↗

— John Moody

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I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago. ↗

— Robert Moog

#ago #happen #i #important #important thing

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#combinations #consists #constructing #infinite #invention

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#always #because #calculated #carefully #controlled

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#be yourself #believe #cut #defines #friends

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

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