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An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

Robert A. Heinlein
Government, Patents, Impossible
Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc
An invention is something that was impossible up to then that's why governments grant patents.