#invention

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#guilty #guilty conscience #invention #mother

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#enjoy #enjoys #fiction #gene #invention

If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf was invented at the same moment. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#funny #hobbits #humor #invention-of-golf #funny

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#interested #invention #just #more #mozart

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good. ↗

— David Mamet

#been #bought #brazilians #came #families

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#allows #because #camera #digital #great

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention. ↗

— John le Carre

#chaos #i #i am #making #order

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.' ↗

— James Naismith

#basketball #developed #drop #handkerchief #invention

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#clothes #impossible #invention #keep #like

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#best #better #better off #book #date