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When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?


Enrico Bombieri


#inventions #math #perspective #science #science

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.


Lily Tomlin


#deep #his #invented #language #man

Did you ever think about the creation of the flame-thrower? Someone, somewhere, at some time must have been sitting on his porch, and said, thoughtfully, 'I want to set him on fire.' gesturing to his neighbor. His friend who sat beside him and happened to be handy with tools said, 'I can do that.' Thus, we have a flame thrower.


John Larson


#humor #inventions #humor

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

Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself.


Katelyn S. Irons


#creativity #inspirational #invention #inspirational

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.


Simon Callow


#becoming #characters #find #great #great writer

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?


Julio Cortazar


#future #had #invent #live #lost

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.


Max Ernst


#decorative #discovery #either #every #every time






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