Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
Nicholson BakerTag: books inventions
Did you ever think about the creation of the flame-thrower? Someone, somewhere, at some time must have been sitting on his porch, and said, thoughtfully, 'I want to set him on fire.' gesturing to his neighbor. His friend who sat beside him and happened to be handy with tools said, 'I can do that.' Thus, we have a flame thrower.
John LarsonTag: humor inventions flame-throwers
That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships--although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies.
Rodney StarkTag: christianity technology inventions
When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?
Enrico BombieriTag: science perspective ideas math inventions
Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.
Christopher HitchensTag: humor existence invention problem voltaire inventions no-remorse
Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.
Robert SchumannTag: gifts modesty inventions
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
Nikola TeslaTag: passion marriage inventions nikola-tesla
[...] there is one inexorable law of technology, and it is this: when revolutionary inventions become widely accessible, they cease to be accessible. Technology is inherently democratic, because it promises the same services to all; but it works only if the rich are alone using it. When the poor also adopt technology, it stops working. A train used to take two hours to go from A to B; then the motor car arrived, which could cover the same distance in one hour. For this reason cars were very expensive. But as soon as the masses could afford to buy them, the roads became jammed, and the trains started to move faster. Consider how absurd it is for the authorities constantly to urge people to use public transport, in the age of the automobile; but with public transport, by consenting not to belong to the elite, you get where you're going before members of the elite do.
Umberto EcoTag: technology elite inventions transport
Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.
William J. FedererTag: government thoughts create inventions
We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.
Dejan StojanovicTag: wisdom poetry literature quotes thoughts inventions travelling forgot poetry-quotes quotes-to-live-by literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic forgotten-past
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