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“Dagny," he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, "think of the first man who thought of making a steel girder. He knew what he saw, what he thought and what he wanted. He di...”
“Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of "inspiration." It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge -- that is to say, of scien...”
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
“Mr. Watson Come here I want to se”
“Language is mankind's greatest inventiom that it was never invented.”
“There are no new inventions, only new discoveries.”
“Apparently, the glasses didnt need to be connected to the internet for the wearer to poke into someones personal life. Even though a search engine could lead to an individuals address, the browser ...”
“I told [John Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted 'Mary had a little lamb'...”
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, ...”
“Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream.”
“Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.”
“Failure is your invention.”
“Architecture is invention.”
“Want the mistress of invention.”
“A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.”
“God hath made man upright but they have sought out many inventions.”
“Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to se”
“Language is mankind's greatest inventiom… that it was never invented.”
