Quote by Francis Picabia
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an im

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

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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

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing. – Sir Joshua Reynolds

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

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