#venti

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

— Dava Sobel

#invention #inventors #science #science

I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is. ↗

— Lori R. Lopez

#books #eccentric #humor #offbeat #quirky

Hate isn’t the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesn’t free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a wall, until you’ve created a new person, a new life that you can live with. ↗

— Rasmenia Massoud

#feeling #hate #life #love #reinventing-yourself

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

#inventors #plagiarism #men

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best. ↗

— Thomas More

#invention #mankind #vanity #men

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#shocks #today #tomorrow

It was in the Seventies but I still recall what was a good night for my club. Of course, the stadium has changed now but I have heard that the atmosphere is still the same. ↗

— Carl Zeiss

#changed #club #course #good #good night

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. ↗

— Steve Albini

#conventional wisdom #doubt #experiment #reason #unless

With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office. ↗

— Louis Auchincloss

#brow #brown #clean #committee #conventions

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#aptly #author #being #book #first