A Quote by Samuel Hoffenstein
What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
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The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.
New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.
And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.
And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.
Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine.
Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!
Before agriculture was invented, land was not a resource. Before oil drilling and nuclear fission were invented, petroleum and uranium were not resources.
The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver and the machine - is our spirit or heart.
I’ve been thinking about that ever since. Am I lucky? Am I lucky that I didn’t die? Am I lucky that, compared to the other kids here, my life doesn’t seem so bad? Maybe I am, but I have to say, I don’t feel lucky. For one thing, I’m stuck in this pit. And just because your life isn’t as awful as someone else’s, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck. You can’t compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn’t work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.
The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?
Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.
Consider the wheelbarrow. It may lack the grace of an airplane, the speed of an automobile, the initial capacity of a freight car, but its humble wheel marked out the path of what civilization we still have.
It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.
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