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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If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice. – George Gobel

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity — gunpowder and romantic love. – Andre Maurois

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

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