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The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Socrates

Quoted in Republic, by Plato

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Socrates. Quoted in Πολιτεία [Republic], written by Plato. c. 375 BCE.

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Socrates. Quoted in Republic, written by Plato, translated by Desmond Lee. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg

The Social Network

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The Social Network. Directed by David Fincher. Columbia Pictures/Relativity Media/Scott Rudin Productions/Michael De Luca Productions/Trigger Street Productions, 2010.

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The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 32.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 32.

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A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. "Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon." Quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, 2007. Originally from Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon, 3 May 1949.

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

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Kay, Alan. Speech in Palo Alto. c. 1971, Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Zamyatin, Yevgeny. "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters." A Soviet Heretic, translated by Mirra Ginsburg. University of Chicago Press, 1970. Originally published in 1923.

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When a man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

Guillaume Apollinaire

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Apollinaire, Guillaume. Les mamelles de Tirésias [The Breasts of Tiresias]. 1917, Paris, France.

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They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound
They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother
When they said that man could fly;
They told Marconi
Wireless was a phony-
It's the same old cry!

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Gershwin, Ira. "They All Laughed." Shall We Dance. Composed by George Gershwin. Performed by Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. RKO Radio Pictures, 1937.

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I know you're taking it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall, he always gets bloody. Always. This is threatening not just a way of doing business, but in their minds, it's threatening the game. Really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs. It's threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it's the government, or a way of doing business, or whatever it is, the people who are holding the reins—they have their hands on the switch—they go batshit crazy.

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Moneyball. Directed by Bennett Miller, Columbia Pictures/Scott Ruding Productions/Michael De Luca Productions/Rachael Horovitz Productions/Plan B Entertainment, 2011.

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Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

Heywood Broun

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Broun, Heywood. New York World, 6 Feb. 1928.

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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The Prince

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Machiavelli, Niccolò. Il Principe [The Prince]. Rome: Antonio Blado d'Asola, 1532.

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Machiavelli, Nicolò. The Prince, translated by Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

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Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831, introduction.

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Shelley, Mary. "Introduction to Frankenstein, Third Edition (1831)." Frankenstein: The 1818 Text. Penguin Classics, 2018.

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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

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Locke, John. "The Epistle Dedicatory." An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. London: Thomas Basset, 1690.

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Locke, John. "The Epistle Dedicatory." An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Roger Woolhouse. Penguin Classics, 1998.

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Invention... Arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie

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Christie, Agatha. Agatha Christie: An Autobiography. Collins/Dodd, Mead & Company, 1977.

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For most of my life I refused to work at any problem unless its solution seemed to be capable of being put to commercial use.

Thomas Edison

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Edison, Thomas Alva. Interview. New York Sun, Feb. 1917.

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Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices.

G.W.F. Hegel

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Hegel, G. W. F. Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts [Fundamentals of the Philosophy of Law]. c. 1820, sect. 318.

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Hegel, G. W. F. Outlines of the Philosophy of Right, translated by T. M. Knox. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

R.D. Laing

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Laing, Ronald David. The Politics of Experience. Penguin Books, 1967, ch. 6.

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Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

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Griswold, Alfred Whitney. Address at Yale University. 9 Jun. 1957, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Lawrence Durrell

Mountolive

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Durrell, Lawrence. Mountolive. Faber and Faber, 1958.

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