“ History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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“ If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction. ”
- Arthur Bloch- Copy
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“ Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market. ”
- Royal Little- Copy
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“ Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind. ”
- Charles de Lint- Copy
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“ Darwinian man, though well behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved. ”
- W. S. Gilbert- Copy
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“ I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried… ”
- Ted Nelson- Copy
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“ I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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“ Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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