To: RoughDobermann
Out of curiousity, who said that?
3 posted on
03/12/2003 9:25:05 AM PST by
gomaaa
To: gomaaa
IIRC, some English twit. I'll see if I can find out...
To: gomaaa
I think I misquoted. I believe that it was actually, "Everything worth having must already have been invented."
To: gomaaa
Here ya go.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles H. Duell
Questionably attributed to him anyway.
To: gomaaa
He was American Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents
To: gomaaa
I believe it came from the head of the US patent office in the late 1800's.... whoever he was...
10 posted on
03/12/2003 9:36:03 AM PST by
tje
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