#invention

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. ↗

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling. ↗

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I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. ↗

— Michael Graves

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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists. ↗

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

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Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. ↗

— Mary Shelley

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Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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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

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What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention. ↗