#invention

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

#invention #quip #wings #writing #write

The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done. ↗

— George Carlin

#invention #job

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#challenge #chameleon #change #how #i

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#dispute #doubt #ease #fact #ignorance

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#gay #human #invention #reality #western

Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits. ↗

— Tomas Luis de Victoria

#heritage #his #invention #man #music

Invention is the mother of necessity. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#mother #necessity

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#because #devise #direct #does #her

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#adapt #case #faster #inventions #make