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New Inventions Quotes

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

Edwin Percy Whipple (1861). “Essays and Reviews”, p.74

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least harmless, for seven generations of humans before it could be adopted.

Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.48, Simon and Schuster