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 Necessity, the mother of invention
  George Farquhar

 Necessity, the mother of invention
  George Farquhar

 Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
  Henry David Thoreau

 Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...

 Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
  Ambrose Bierce

 The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing
  Jonathan Swift

 The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing
  Jonathan Swift

 The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt

 There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking
  Will Rogers

 These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
  Alfred Hitchcock

 Want is the mistress of invention

 Want is the mistress of invention

 Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried
  Thomas Jefferson

 Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
  Dave Barry


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