I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. - Th

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

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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

The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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