"Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed."

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Source : "Ethernet inventor on IoT, innovation, more: Bob Metcalfe Q&A". "RCR Wireless News" with Sean Kinney, www.rcrwireless.com. November 12, 2015.

Robert Metcalfe

#Weed Quotes #Flower Quotes #Innovation Quotes

“All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness.”
“The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet”

Source : William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”
“If I had campaigned for it, Arvind Kejriwal would have become the chief minister of Delhi.”
“The trouble with history is that there are too many people involved”
“You're a star -- and so am I. I'm a genius -- and so are you. Your success encourages my brilliance, and my charisma enhances your power. Your victory doesn't require my defeat, and vice versa.”
“I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine.”
“My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.”
“World, you are beautifully drest.”

Source : William Brighty Rands (1871). “Lilliput Lectures”, p.22

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