Who said the quote in the headline of this column, and when did they say it? "Everything that can be invented has been" was reportedly a brash statement made in 1899 by the then Commissioner of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, one Charles H. Duell, who, it was claimed, felt ...
Everything that can be invented has been invented. Charles H. Duell,Commissioner, U.S. patent office, 1899 (attributed) Notes about this Quotation This quotation is not really the words of Mr. Duell. There is a long-standing urban legend about a patent director making such a statement, and...
During her initial multiverse jumps, Evelyn gets caught up in the alternate realities she experiences. Despite being a likable character, Evelyn has some harsh words for Waymond, saying that her life without him was “beautiful.” This quote not only triggers a heartbreaking reaction from Waymon...
“Near the elevators, there’s a black plaque with white lettering that informs visitors they have entered the realm of the philosopher-CEO. It reads: There is so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There’s so much new that’s going to happen. People don’t have any idea yet ho...
And Gutenberg is the project name of the new WordPress block editor. The project is named afterJohannes Gutenberg, who invented the movable-type mechanical printing press. WordPress stated that one of the biggest goals of the new editor was to allow users to build rich posts and beautiful layou...
The idea of CRUD originates in ER (Entity-Relationship) modeling. The first thing to understand about ER is that ER models simply reflectthe way humans think. ER models are a natural representation of data,notan artificial one invented to make coding easier. ...
Look, we're journalists. We basically invented the concept of an all-nighter. We are not morning people. If we have to face our own mortality when we get up in the morning, we might as well do it while confronting the specter of nuclear holocaust too. Someone on Twitter suggested pourin...
ZM: We graduated from AFI, and they recently invented Kwan and Scheinert to speak at commencement. AD: And someone from AFI emailed us being like, “hey, you want to crash their Q&A or something?” ZM: And in the front row of this Q&A, there was one guy who h...
The problem was, everyone did it differently, This was understandable when all writing was done by hand, but once movable type was invented the need for standardized punctuation became clear. Even so, we’re still arguing about it. Grammar school might have led you to believe that we’ve ...
and everything my big brother told me was gospel. They claimed the older boys had told them when they started just the same, passing them down through the generations, but I was pretty sure they had made them up themselves. I knew for certain that they invented skids disease when one of...