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Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of
mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis
impudence and money makes a peer.
Daniel Defoe
(1660-1731)
As an artist if you have to explain your art to the average person then it is not art and you have failed. Blobs of paint and big sheets of metal are made by failed artists. But they are great salesmen!!
Gordon Mays
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Inventions
David Sarnoff of RCA boasted in 1954, that RCA, a huge multi-national company, had spent $75 million to develop colour television and employed hundreds of research scientists in the process. The contrast to John Logie Baird, who developed it ten years earlier for less than $20,000, paid out of his own pocket, with two employed assistants, is quite astounding. If that isn’t a demonstration of genius then I do not understand the term. (RCA referred to the Telephone and Baird’s patents as prior art in their patent application) It was passed uncontested.!!
John Logie Baird had a love of good watches and with the first money that arrived he bought a good wristwatch adding to the collection as he worked.
I am afraid of the law it is
Unpredictable
