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  • I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

    "He's got that thinking feeling". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2002.
  • Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.

    Art   Land   Organization  
  • Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.

    Ovid,, A. D. Melville, E. J. Kenney (2008). “Metamorphoses”, p.359, Oxford University Press
  • It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

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

    Country   Men   America  
  • 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 Rundle Charles (1865). “Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family”, p.40
  • Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.

    Father   Lying   Devil  
    Jonathan Swift (2011). “Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings”, p.558, Bantam Classics
  • Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

  • You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that. Polaroid did that for some years, but eventually Dr. Land, one of those brilliant troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company - which is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.

    Art   Years   Land  
    "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.
  • Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

    "Steve Jobs quotes: the man in his own words", www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.
  • That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

    "The 13 Most Memorable Quotes From Steve Jobs" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. October 5, 2011.
  • People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

  • After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

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

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

    Birthday   People   Soul  
  • We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.340, University of Georgia Press
  • Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.210, Courier Corporation
  • You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

    Success   Trust   Karma  
    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
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