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Letter "I" » Inventions
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«Necessity, the mother of invention»
«I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.»
Author: Nikola Tesla
(Engineer, Inventor)
| About:
Emotion,
Inventions,
Success
| Keywords:
canned food, food for thought, go through, Human heart, inventor, The Brain, the inventor, The Thrills, thrill, unfolding
«I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.»
«Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Books,
Friends,
Inventions,
Memory,
Success,
Wit
| Keywords:
ally, treacherous
«Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Inventions,
Technology
| Keywords:
abrogate, abrogates, advantages, disagreeable, disagreeable person, telephone
«Let's drive not just breakthroughs in new products, but new ways to give more and more people access to these inventions and their benefits. This is a broad and important mission, and I believe we all have a part to play in it.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
breakthrough, breakthroughs, inventions, let drive
«Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
distract, distracting, distracts, improved, inventions, toys, unimproved, wont, wont to
«My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.»
«I invented the cordless extension cord.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
cord, corded, cordless, extension, extension cord
«There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking»
Author: Will Rogers
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
banking, central, central bank, central banking, inventions, The wheel, wheel
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