Quote by Mark Twain
Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors. - Mark Twai

Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors. – Mark Twain

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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. – Mark Twain

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A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. – Francis Picabia

I dont mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I dont even mind using someones reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles. – Joseph Newcomer

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. – Thomas Alva Edison

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