Steve Jobs

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

American Businessman

Gus Van Sant

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing.

American Director

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

American Scientist

Gareth Southgate

In life, there are really complex, difficult jobs, and some are more complicated and difficult than others. But when you look around at inventions, or records that have been broken, you have to tell yourself that anything is possible.

English Athlete

Benjamin Franklin

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

American Politician

Julian Fellowes

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series.

English Actor

Rachel Hollis

Was there ever a better invention in the cookie world than the Oreo?

American Author

James Dyson

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

British Designer

Princess Nokia

I think that the power of reinvention is very important.

American Musician

Mikhail Kalashnikov

Life is composed of different inventions.

Russian Inventor

Inventions often change history and impact daily life significantly.

Historical Impact

Inventions can be concepts or methods, not just physical items.

Not Always Objects

Inventions can be patented to protect the rights of the inventor.

Patent Associated

The term implies a systematic process often associated with scientific fields.

Technical Domains

In an academic context, inventions result from research and experimentation.

Academic Endeavors

Inventions may involve legal steps like patents for commercial protection.

Legal Considerations

This use of 'invention' implies a story or idea made up, often to deceive.

Fabricated Stories

Sometimes inventions are creative tales meant for entertainment, not deception.

Imaginative Tales

It expresses skepticism about the truth of a statement or story.

Expressions of Doubt

 Once there is superintelligence, the fate of humanity may depend on what the superintelligence does. Think about Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make. Machines will then be better at inventing than we are, and they'll be doing so on digital timescales.

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 It's frozen solid. But instead of throwing it out, Frank pulls the icy block of soda out of the glass by the embedded stir stick and, in a moment of vision, licks it. Delighted by his invention, Frank begins making the frozen treat for friends, and as he grows older,

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 Invisible, but essential to every pattern, the grid helps determine the scale of the composition before work begins, keeps the pattern accurate, and facilitates the invention of incredible new patterns. Let's look at an example of how these elements come together.

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 Dominant individuals were able to get food by stealing, so they don't need to innovate. It's the low-ranking individuals that need to innovate because, essentially, necessity is the mother of invention. And especially the males, because it's the males

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 Originally used as a way of preserving foods before the invention of refrigeration, fermentation remains a traditional practice all over the world. Foods like kimchi, sauerkraut, tempeh, and kombucha provide variety and vitality to our diets.

How the food you eat...

 our inventions give us a level of power we never imagined. With our machines we carved through solid rock, tunneled beneath the sea floor, connecting the world, mixing distant cultures. Freedom of movement has given us freedom of mind.

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 of all of human history have chimed in on the issue as well, often in surprising ways. So, is mathematics an invention or a discovery? Artificial construct or universal truth? Human product or natural, possibly divine, creation?

Is math discovered or...

 We talk about inventions and innovation as though the best things out there are the Internet, iPads, or smart phones. Or perhaps more simply, trains, planes, and automobiles. Which one is most important,

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 to build the modern world and this invention is a scientific method now may sound surprise to you but the way that we do science today is itself an invention

How to rebuild the world...

 This is the story of an invention that changed the world. Imagine a machine that could cut 10 hours of work down to one.

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