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"So many of the things I invented I honestly did for fun, out of some perverse game of whether or not they'd work, whether people would use them. I mean, it was like setting up a guillotine in the public square. You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it."
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"Thinking outside of the box keeps you from suffocating inside of one."
"The ordinary are here to fit into the world, the extraordinary are here to create their own worlds."
"Great minds birth great ideas. Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas. Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas."
"In a world full of game players, the only way to set yourself apart is to be a game changer."
"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet."
"Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had."
"Your ingenuity will remain dormant until it is provoked."
"Don't always complain the way isn't there. If you can't find the way, create it."
"Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are."
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