“Everything that can be invented HAS been invented.” Charles H. Duell, U.S. Commissioner of Patents, in 1899.
“Every good song and every good movie and every good book that can be written HAS been written.” Me, 2012
But this guy hit the nail on the head....albeit 169 years too early:
Ref: Patent Office Commissioner, Henry Ellsworth’s 1843 report to Congress. In it Ellsworth states, “The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.”
We’re now there.
I agree completely. You are obviously a person of tremendous intelligence. Not that I would ever infer that someone who agrees with me has high mental capabilities. No, not me. (snicker)