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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Getting caught is the mother of invention.
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Robert Byrne
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We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
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Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
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If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), The Exploration of Space, 1951
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
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Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
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Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
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David Frost
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
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Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.
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David Cronenberg, Rocketboom, 07-19-06
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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
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Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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