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• The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

  "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future". Book by Daniel H. Pink, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2006.

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• I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Mind, World, Damage

  "Interview with the Web’s Creator". Interview With Chris Oakes, www.wired.com. October 23, 1999.

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• We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

  Andre Maurois

  Love, Happiness, Two

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.

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• You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

  David Hockney

  Names, Cameras, Invention

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• Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Military, Optimistic, Average

  "Bias, Blindness and How We Truly Think (Part 1): Daniel Kahneman". www.bloomberg.com. October 25, 2011.

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• Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Japan, People

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

  Naveen Jain

  Jobs, Athlete, Successful

  "Bring Back America’s Spirit of Innovation and Entrepreneurship" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2011.

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• I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Men, Ideas, Long

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• The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?

  Isaac Asimov

  Wheels

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• great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

  Elizabeth Charles

  Discovery, Innovation, Everyday

  Elizabeth Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.40

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• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Secret, Recipes, Dies

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• The great brainwave of the inventors of Christianity: "God is love!" And then? What does it change? You may always preach a god of love to men, they will make use of him to sanctify their villainies and their crimes "for the good fight" as well as the massacres en masse, blessing priests leading the way.

  Francois Cavanna

  Fighting, Men, Blessing

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• This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Musician, Poet

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• Death is the inventor of God.

  Jose Saramago

  "'La muerte es la inventora de Dios'". Interview with Francesc Relea, elpais.com. October 17, 2009.

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• No one is an inventor in the fashion business. Designers recreate fashion.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Fashion, Designer

  Source: wwd.com

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• Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

  Voltaire

  Spiritual, Women, Learning

  Dictionnaire Philosophique "Women" (1764)

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• People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

  Scott Turow

  People, Thrillers

  "'To hell with Perry Mason'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

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• Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

  Jonathan Swift

  Birthday, People, Soul

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• Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Soul, Spurs

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• I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.

  Jane Smiley

  Book, Writing, Editors

  "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Tells the Tale of the World’s First Computer". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. November 1, 2010.

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• It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing - in the case of patents, many that own them aren't in a good position to take the next step.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Next, Steps, Patents

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• For one thing, there are many "inventions" that are not patentable. The "inventor" of the supermarket, for example, conferred great benefits on his fellowmen for which he could not charge them. Insofar as the same kind of ability is required for the one kind of invention as for the other, the existence of patents tends to divert activity to patentable inventions.

  Milton Friedman

  Patents, Example, Benefits

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.127, University of Chicago Press

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• We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Children, Real

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• Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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• A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction, he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions, but also entire world view, he is the inventor of entire forms of like.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Children, Men, Artist

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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