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• Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mind, Phrases, Original Thought

  John Stuart Mill (1858). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.426

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• I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

  Lady Gaga

  Creation, Props

  Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 13, 2011.

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• Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Engineering, Hands

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• Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock making machine was the daddy of all the industrial profiling machinery, like the 1870s universal milling machine, that was the especial American contribution to machining technology. By that time, the British conceded that machinery innovation had shifted to America.

  Charles R. Morris

  Technology, America, Daddy

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• Coffee and chocolate-the inventor of mocha should be sainted.

  Cherise Sinclair

  Coffee, Chocolate, Mocha

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• I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

  Bruce Springsteen

  Rocks, Rock Music, Exception

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Television was first conceived to be used as some kind of telescope, not for broadcasting. Originally, Sworkin, the inventor of television, wanted to settle cameras on rockets so that it would be possible to watch the sky.

  Paul Virilio

  Sky, Telescopes, Rockets

  Source: ctheory.net

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• [Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes.

  Paul Laffoley

  People, Buckminster Fuller, Way

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I think [Nikola Tesla] was always like that. And so it was inevitable that he would be an inventor. Because it was so easy for him to think fourth-dimensionally, dynamically. It wasn't just a static thing with him. In other words, it isn't the way an architect thinks, which is essentially static.

  Paul Laffoley

  Thinking, Tesla, Way

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes.

  Kit Harington

  Genes

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I love my life. I love being an inventor.

  Jeff Bezos

  Love Is, Love Of My Life, I Love My Life

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently; and, oddly, I found a lot in common between Jobs and Brown. Jobs was also a fantastic performer, put on an extraordinary live show at his product launches, but he could also be ruthless, cruel and totally self-aggrandizing. And just as Brown surrounded himself with the very best musicians, Jobs understood the importance of hiring the absolutely most talented people and knew how crucial they were to the success of what he was trying to do.

  Alex Gibney

  Jobs, Self, People

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I was always a mad scientist type - an inventor and just a generally inventive person, and that has remained the same. But one thing that *has* changed is that I've always been aggressively pro-business, with the mentality that whoever pays me, gets me - but now, I'd rather be broke than contribute to destroying the world my son is inheriting - both the social fabric, and obviously the environmental.

  Sam Lamott

  Son, Mad, Environmental

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I don't think generally speaking, there are a lot of innovators and inventors. Many of the designers take what exists already and update it or make it relevant for today. But true inventors have never been seen before. Bill Gates is a real inventor. I don't think fashion designers invent anything new. They innovate new ways to make fashion.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Fashion, Real, Thinking

  Source: wwd.com

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• I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together.

  Reid Hoffman

  Technology, Thinking, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You have to be logical and use international words so people can relate to reggae music. I'm the inventor of the word reggae music. I'm the one who coined the word reggae. So, whatever I put out on my label - my label called D & F Music - it has to be positive.

  Toots Hibbert

  People, Being Positive, Reggae

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There must be a way to get more of these in me faster, thought the inventor of pea soup as he sat eating peas.

  Dana Gould

  Soup, Way, Eating

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• America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Country, Men, America

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• This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

  Lord Byron

  Birthday, Soul, Age

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.170, Routledge

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• Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

  Kevin Kelly

  Technology, Self, Firsts

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• I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

  Voltaire

  Art, Believe, Philosophical

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.121, Penguin

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• It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

  Voltaire

  Art, Men, Invention

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.237

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• Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found that it was good and thereafter made a practice of smiting rivals and enemies with branches of wood, then, and on that day, artificiality may be said to have begun. Then, and on that day, was begun a revolution destined to change the history of life. Then, and on that day, was laid the cornerstone of that most tremendous of artifices, CIVILIZATION!

  Jack London

  Practice, Civilization, Enemy

  Jack London (2014). “The Kempton-Wase Letters”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, America, Ideas

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• Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

  Ron Chernow

  Entrepreneur, Visionaries, Affair

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