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• In a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead buy or license processes or inventions (i.e. patents) from other companies. In addition, internal inventions not being used in a firm’s business should be taken outside the company.

  Henry Chesbrough

  Taken, Patents, Research

  "Championship: Opening up the ivory tower" by Francis Moran and Leo Valiquette, www.businessinsider.com. October 11, 2011.

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• The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods

  Ralph Linton

  Technology, Political, Development

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• The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself...Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.

  George Gershwin

  Inspiration, Waiting, Doe

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• In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Disappointment, Crazy, Exercise

  Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland (2003). “Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde”, HarperCollins UK

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• Architecture is invention.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Architecture

  "Celebrating Niemeyer, Brazil's Modernist Master". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. November 12, 2010.

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• We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

  Agatha Christie

  Simple, Achievement, Great Inventions

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• Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mother, Silly, Exercise

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• In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Art, Memories, Blood

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• Executive Severance, a laugh out loud comic mystery novel, epitomizes our current cultural moment in that it is born from the juxtaposition of authorial invention and technological communication innovation. Merging creative text with new electronic context, Robert K. Blechman's novel, which originally appeared as Twitter entries, can be read on a cell phone. His tweets which merge to form an entertaining novel can't be beat. Hold the phone; exalt in the mystery-engage with Blechman's story which signals the inception of a new literary art form.

  Marleen S. Barr

  Art, Communication, Cells

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• Community colleges are one of Americas great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

  Barbara Mikulski

  College, Careers, Community

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• Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

  Jeff Bezos

  Want, All Time, Understood

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• When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, ‘Are they right?’ And if they are, you need to adapt what they’re doing. If they’re not right, if you really have conviction that they’re not right, you need to have that long-term willingness to be misunderstood. It’s a key part of invention.

  Jeff Bezos

  Keys, Long, People

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• Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.

  Red Smith

  Art, Reality, Fiction

  Red Smith (2013). “American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (The Library of America)”, p.26, Library of America

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• I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

  Hedda Hopper

  Men, Expression, Actors

  Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”

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• The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”“The better we get at getting better, the faster we will get better.”“In 20 or 30 years, you’ll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.”“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment they can tolerate.”“The key thing about all the world’s big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don’t get collectively smarter, we’re doomed.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Writing, Keys, Hands

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• It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Hands, Gold

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• Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't underestimate the value of that. But they're not designed to take care of social needs.

  George Soros

  Great Inventions, Needs, Looks

  Interview with Mark Shapiro, September 05, 2000.

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• The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.

  Rick Warren

  Purpose, Way, Discovering

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• If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

  John Ashcroft

  Mother, Father, Cooperation

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• The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok’s wonder The Puppet Show.

  Vsevolod Meyerhold

  Art, Determination, Moving

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• Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

  Paul Theroux

  Play, Actors, Sightseeing

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Civilization, People, Dawn

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Civilization, Century, Collectivism

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I'm a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch — terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.

  Rube Goldberg

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Rube Goldberg: Inventions!".

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• Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

  Colleen McCullough

  Men, Ties, Feel Good

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.276, Head of Zeus

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