#invention

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#feminine #invention #masculine #nothing #virtue

Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#ahead #america #college #college education #colleges

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#any #being #day #human #human being

There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention. ↗

— Bill Pullman

#bit #british #definitely #different #exist

I am honored to be able to serve GM at this critical juncture and take part in its reinvention. ↗

— Edward Whitacre, Jr.

#am #critical #gm #honored #i

Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel. ↗

— Steve Krug

#design #invention #work #design

Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked. ↗

— William James

#invention #life

Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened. ↗

— Laurence Moore

#ethnic-group #how-it-happened #lds #mormon #mormonism

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#non-physical-phenomena #progress #science #science

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#being #board #building #companies #company