#invent

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#always #another #been #being #books

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#capitalism #civilization #contradiction #dawn #improving

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. ↗

— Mikhail Gorbachev

#centuries #civilization #existed #invention #market

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#intelligence #invented #made #man #stupidity

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#actions #affinities #among #architecture #arts

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#fire #flying #god #great #hailed

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bit #change #disturbing #find #fixed

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

#arm #asthmatic #carrying #equalled #his

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#habits #house #indoor #inside #invention

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#disintegrating #education #ever #invented #liberalism