“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
Thomas A. Edison
US inventor (1847 – 1931)
Monthly Archive for March, 2009
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is
not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny …‘ ”
Isaac Asimov
US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 – 1992)
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It take a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”
E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered (1973)
German economist, Buddhist & environmentalist (1911 – 1977)
