#invention

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

— Steve Lacy

#interested #invention #just #more #mozart

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

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. ↗

— Roger von Oech

#father #invention #may #mother #necessity

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

— Sydney Smith

#clothes #impossible #invention #keep #like

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution. ↗

— John Sununu

#been #business #digital #disrupted #distribution

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

#discoveries #gain #great #inventions #material

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#dated #fixed #inventions #many #offices

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#books #invention #stories #things #beauty

I want to create a cologne that smells like a whisper. It’ll be for all the secret admirers out there.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cologne #fragrance #invent #invention #secret-admirer

I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner.
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— Jarod Kintz

#experiment #experimentation #fear #food #innovation