The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Laws made in Alaska, which is known for its lawlessness, are as valid as laws made in Pennsylvania, which invented laws. — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented. — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented. — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the… — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
“We invented fire, repeatedly messed up, and then invented the fire extinguisher, fire exit, fire alarm and fire department.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“Don Quixote is so crazy that he is sure no author could have invented him” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Isn't hot coffee a wonderful thing? How did people get along before it was invented?” — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said and so say I; And bless him, also, that he… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Anything invented before you were eighteen was there all along. Anything invented before you’re thirty is exciting and will change the world… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
I write on a very strict 2-hour-a-day schedule, and I really respond to structure and invented rules. So even if I'm finding… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Every week, I heave open a supermarket skip and find therein a more exotic shopping list of items than I could possibly… — Tristram Stuart Copy Share Image
I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with… — Steven Dietz Copy Share Image
Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
“I have tutored Little Igor to be a man of this world. For example, I exhibited him a smutty magazine three days… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created in the… — David Hanson Copy Share Image
There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
I go to this gym full of stunt men. There aren't any TVs or treadmills there. This is a spit-and-sawdust kind of… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
