#inventions

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there. ↗

— Will Rogers

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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 So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.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

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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

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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

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Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful. ↗

— Robert Shea

#functions #human #human inventions #interdependent #inventions

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#inventions #beauty

Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head. ↗

— William J Federer

#government #inventions #thoughts #change

That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships--although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies. ↗

— Rodney Stark

#inventions #technology #faith

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#marriage #nikola-tesla #passion #marriage

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#forgot #forgotten-past #inventions #literature #literature-quotes