I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
What hath God wrought?
What hath God wrought?
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and read more
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make read more
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back read more
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a read more
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life's most soothing things are sweet music and a child's goodnight.
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life's most soothing things are sweet music and a child's goodnight.
