{"quotes":[{"text":"Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.","author":"Robert A. Heinlein","tags":["innovation","invention","laziness","progress","technology"],"id":9216,"author_id":"Robert+A.+Heinlein"},{"text":"As with all new inventions, there are upsides and downsides. The commercial drone is no exception. But until robust safeguards have been introduced to protect personal privacy from prying eyes in the skies, the true benefits to society of unmanned aerial vehicles will remain unrealised.","author":"Alex Morritt","tags":["advantages","aerial-drone","aerial-drones","aviation","beneficiaries","beneficiary","benefit","benefits","big-brother","big-brother-is-watching","civil-aviation-ity","civilian-drone","civilian-drones","commercial-drone","commercial-drones","cool-robotics","crowded-skies","disadvantages","diy-drones","downside","downsides","drone","drone-pilot","drone-pilots","drone-technology","drones","exception","exception-to-the-rule","faa","federal-aviation-administration","flying-robots","harassment","high-tech-surveillance","hobbyist-uav","intelligent-machines","introduce","introduced","introduction","intrusion","intrusive","invasion","invasion-of-privacy","invasive","invention","inventions","menace","new","new-inventions","no-exception","no-exceptions","novel","novel-ideas","nuisance","person","personal","personal-privacy","personal-property","personal-rights","persons","privacy","privacy-law","privacy-laws","privacy-legislation","privacy-problems","privacy-rights","protect","protected","protecting","protection","protective","pry","prying","prying-eyes","prying-eyes-in-the-skies","quadcopter","quotable","quotes","remotely-piloted-aircraft","remotely-piloted-vehicle","right-of-privacy","right-to-privacy","robot","robot-machinery","robot-vehicle","robotics","robust","robustness","rpa","rpa-s","rpv","rpv-s","safeguard","safeguarded","safeguarding","safeguards","smart-aerial-device","snoop","snooping","societal","society","society","spying","stalker","stalking","surveillance","surveillance-society","surveillance-state","surveillance-technology","technology","technology","technology","threats-to-privacy","true","true-benefits","truth","uav","uav-s","unmanned-aerial-vehicles","unmanned-aviation","unrealised","unrealized","unrealized-potential","upside","upsides"],"id":9953,"author_id":"Alex+Morritt"},{"text":"You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements, Imaginations, Information, Interventions and Inspirations... Go the extra mile and dare to do it.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["begin","complete","dare","dare-to-win","do-it","end","extra","extra-mile","fight-for-it","finish","finish-it","go","imaginations","imagine","improve","improvement","improvements","inform","information","initiate","initiations","initiatives","innovate","innovation","innovations","inspiration","inspirations","inspire","intervene","intervention","interventions","invent","invention","inventions","involve","involvement","involvements","israelmore-ayivor","make-it-happen","save","saved","saved-for-work","till-all-is-done","work","works"],"id":19749,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["imitation","individuality","invention"],"id":19782,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"Failure is your invention.","author":"Sophia Amoruso","tags":["invention","your "],"id":22732,"author_id":"Sophia+Amoruso"},{"text":"On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: “In many cases there are times when an invention is technologically possible – and in which it may indeed appear necessary, as the telescope may have – but without a market the idea will not sell, and in the absence of the technical and social infrastructure to support it, the invention will not survive.","author":"James Burke","tags":["civilization","driving-force","invention","listening","market","science","scientists"],"id":26616,"author_id":"James+Burke"},{"text":"The world is desperately imperfect. Even if a quarter of the working people were engrossed in new thoughts and inventions and lived off the others, humanity would still gain tremendously thanks to the constant stream of inventions and intellectual work emerging from this horde of people striving upward.","author":"Konstantin Tsiolkovsky","tags":["humanity-and-society","innovation","invention"],"id":27936,"author_id":"Konstantin+Tsiolkovsky"},{"text":"Poverty is the mother of invention.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["blessing","employment","finance","invent","invention","job","jobless","joblessness","life","money","necessity","purpose","time","work"],"id":29705,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of 'inspiration.' It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge -- that is to say, of science. When man becomes great and grand enough to admit that all have equal rights; when thought is untrammeled; when worship shall consist in doing useful things; when religion means the discharge of obligations to our fellow-men, then, and not until then, will the world be civilized.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["invention","knowledge","religion","rights","science","society"],"id":35569,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["clock","day","hour","hourglass","invent","invented","invention","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lifehack","minute","passed","passing","quote","second","tick","tick-tock","time","timing","tock","warn","warning","watch"],"id":40524,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":159,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}