"Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct."
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"I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated."
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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."
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"Interest is the invention of Satan."
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"The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire."
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"Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText."
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"That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it."
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"Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse."
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"All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force."
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"The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage."
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"Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better."
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"History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe."
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"New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones."
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"Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us."
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"It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention."
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"And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant."
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"The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention."
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