#inventor

My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#dad #had #i #i think #inventor

Inventory: "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#contentment #curiosity #doubt #envy #foes

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#device #honestly #i #immortality #inventor

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#been #get #great #him #human

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

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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#authors #best #churches #colleges #common

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special. ↗

— Kit Williams

#course #differential #his #inventor #newton

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. ↗

— David Hockney

#camera #chemical #invention #inventor #name

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. ↗

— Mark Twain

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