#invention

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use. ↗

— Bill Bryson

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Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel. ↗

— Steve Krug

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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

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Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked. ↗

— William James

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Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer. ↗

— Mario Stinger

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Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before. ↗

— John Ashcroft

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