#invention

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#invention #make #sense #started #world

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#forgets #homo #homo sapiens #inventions #invents

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. ↗

— Roger von Oech

#father #invention #may #mother #necessity

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there. ↗

— Will Rogers

#conceives #gets #getting #inventions #many

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#dated #fixed #inventions #many #offices

I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner.
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— Jarod Kintz

#experiment #experimentation #fear #food #innovation

That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships--although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies. ↗

— Rodney Stark

#inventions #technology #faith

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

#destiny #invention #resigned

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#invention #quip #wings #writing #write

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#forgot #forgotten-past #inventions #literature #literature-quotes