#inventor

We want to turn our inventory faster than our people. ↗

— James Sinegal

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People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers. ↗

— John Sladek

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CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own. ↗

— Richard Stallman

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I am an inventor of music. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising. ↗

— Craig Charles

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He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch. ↗

— Dava Sobel

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It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that. ↗

— Mark Twain

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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

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That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

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I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar. ↗

— Guy Fieri

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