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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. ↗

— Mark Twain

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I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended. ↗

— Will McDonough

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People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers. ↗

— John Sladek

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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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The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. ↗

— Harry Seidler

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I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

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Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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