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A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
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Francis Picabia
Francis Picabia books
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71 votes
Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain books
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12 votes
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
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Albert Gyorgyi
Albert Gyorgyi books
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23 votes
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
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Charles H. Duell
Charles H. Duell books
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9 votes
Fear is a great inventor.
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French Proverb
French Proverb books
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47 votes
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Edison books
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If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.
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George Gobel
George Gobel books
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21 votes
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift books
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin books
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17 votes
The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson books
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle books
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11 votes
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht books
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34 votes
We can invent only with memory.
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Alphonse Karr
Alphonse Karr books
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love.
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Andre Maurois
Andre Maurois books
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62 votes