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“A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution are enthusiast stuff. Invention and evolution are engineering.”

People Needs Firsts Stuff Alive Revolution Evolution Invention Engineering Reinvention

Author:Erik Naggum

“There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.”

Men Wisdom Political Politics Economy Design Revolution Invention Liberalism Political Systems Tolerable

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.”

World Years Done Enough Past Revolution Thirds Innovation Invention Toilets Save A Life Sanitation

Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell

“Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.”

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Book:Poets of America

Source: Poets of America

“The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.”

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Author:Alain Aspect

“Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution”

Mother Events Revolution Invention Printing Gutenberg

Author:Victor Hugo

“Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.”

Way Passion Magic Revolution Defeat Ancient Invention One Way

Book:Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles

Source: Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles

“Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.”

“In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.”

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Book:Recollections

Source: Recollections

“My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one of the reasons why I feel certain that of all my inventions, the Magnifying Transmitter will prove most important and valuable to future generations. I am prompted to this prediction not so much by thoughts of the commercial and industrial revolution which it will surely bring about, but of the humanitarian consequences of the many achievements it makes possible. Considerations of mere utility weigh little in the balance against the higher benefits of civilization.”

Source: My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]

“War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring and sharing side uplifts us, or we can continue to embrace a worldview where domination using violence imprisons us in cycles of killing and destruction. I'm a biologist, and war is not genetically fixed. War is a cultural invention. It's time to end this abomination, and this World Beyond War movement is uniquely focused on unifying the human community to create one of the biggest revolutions in history. I'm in. Join us!”

“The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.”

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Author:Douglas Engelbart