#inventor

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller. ↗

— Scott Turow

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I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life. ↗

— Tim Berners Lee

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I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

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There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth. ↗

— Albert Claude

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As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think. ↗

— Alex Chiu

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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

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