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That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it.
Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.
Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.
Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.
What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Touring is the best invention of all time, so if I have to suffer a little bit of payback for having all this fun, then so be it.
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.
Bush explained his fundamental concept to me, that freedom is not an American invention, but rather a gift from God to all people.
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.
Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.
We are a country of Newton, Hodgson, and Turing. Ours is a country of ideas, invention and discovery and is truly a national history.
If it wasn't for my primary school teacher reminding me to be observant, I may not have had the inspiration to think of my invention.
I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.
If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.
I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of.
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.
The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility.
There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.
Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?
Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.
Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'
Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution.
The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than "The Metamorphosis".
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
The invention of Instagram and Twitter has made, like, a big difference. Because you can just talk to anybody. And find anybody, it feels like.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
It was amazing feeling to be able to be involved in invention, but not just invention - the creating of a marketplace that had real value to add.
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.