Funny New Inventions

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

Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses. Adolf Hitler

Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing. Joshua Reynolds

New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create. John Galsworthy

No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can change the situation in twelve months. Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

The world isn't getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more... The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything - time to work, time to play, time to rest. Hedy Lamarr

Usury dulls and damps all industries, improvements, and new inventions, wherein money would be stirring if it were not for this slug. Francis Bacon

One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things-combinations that may yield new formsof expression, new inventions, new discoveries, and new solutions....It's exactly what children's play seems to be about and explains why so many people have come to think that children's play is so important a part of childhood-and beyond. Fred Rogers

Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy. Michael Scott

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life. Nikola Tesla

We don't need new discoveries or new inventions to reverse this trend. We have the tools at our disposal to reverse it. All we need is the motivation, the opportunity and the willpower to do what needs to be done. ...With this report, we have a very solid road map that we need to make these goals real, to solve this problem within a generation. Michelle Obama

My New Year's resolution was to stop saying 'You go, girl' to myself. Zach Galifianakis

Surely the Shadowhunter community must honor you and hold you in high esteem as a gentleman who has truly advanced their race. No, Henry said sadly. Mostly they wish that I would stop suggesting new inventions and cease setting fire to things. Cassandra Clare

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. Oscar Wilde

New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. Jay Leno

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. John Selden

Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year's resolutions, and I've stuck with it ever since. Dave Beard

No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference. Charles Lamb

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