#invention

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini. ↗

— James Dyson

#inventions #lifetime #mini #most

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#because #best #change #clears #death

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#came #games #incredible #inventing #inventions

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#brightest #fire #heaven #invention #muse

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#feeling #i #reinvention #simply

Invention is the mother of necessity. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#mother #necessity

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse. ↗

— George Wald

#been #before #corpse #death #encountering

The concept of war crimes is an American invention. ↗

— George Wald

#concept #crimes #invention #war

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#his #house #invention #inventor #man

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish. ↗

— Lefty Gomez

#bowl #goldfish #got #i #invention