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invention

typing

trivia

QWERTY

WTF Origins

bubble wrap

wallpaper

clothing

laundry

coat

coat hanger

earmuffs

lemonade

popsicle

horse

glue

experiment

experimentation

research

science

wheel

transportation

shovel

door

clock

time

evolution

fish

listening

earphones

inventor

toilet

getting high

corn dog

child

parenting

restaurant

adulting

fork

hybridity

straw

ice cream

Coca-Cola

Gen Z

reinventing the wheel

marker

classroom

dry erase board

wheelbarrow

is, viewed subjectively, to construct something, and, viewed objectively, to find something.

an invention, and to invent something is, subjectively, to construct it, and, objectively, to find it.

is a lot like surfing in that one has to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

is an attitude of never picking up an item without thinking of how to improve it in terms of the service it might give others.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem. Thomas A. Edison

is largely composed of the ideas of other people who never bothered to develop them.

Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them. Thomas A. Edison

is not always intention. In fact, accident is the greatest inventor of all.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. Mark Twain

Invention breeds invention. Ralph Waldo Emerson

is a thing requiring nothing more than a good imagination and a pile of junk.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison

is really about practice, not theory. The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot, but the guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

invention, n.All

invention