#inventor

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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.


Charles Kettering


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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.


Charles Kettering


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Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.


Adam Savage


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People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.


John Sladek


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CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own.


Richard Stallman


#copies #could #digital #disadvantage #expensive

The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.


Craig Charles


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He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.


Dava Sobel


#invention #inventors #science #science

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.


J. M. Coetzee


#always #aspects #clamour #competence #fame

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.


Guy Fieri


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I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#aware #became #black #black history #book