#invent

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things. ↗

— Adam Savage

#being #geek #inventories #learning #things

I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family. ↗

— Dan Savage

#gays #i #lesbians #reinvent #responsibility

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#always #being #dash #ends #every

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

— James Sinegal

#inventory #our #our people #people #than

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#good #good taste #invented #taste #vice

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers. ↗

— John Sladek

#great #inventors #laughed #people

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#difficulty #discoveries #established #great #greatest

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

#copies #could #digital #disadvantage #expensive

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#back #book #comes #doing #goes

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

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