Inventing is a defiant assertion of our vitality and humanity. An inventor rejects the status quo refusing to accept what is in favor of what might be. An inventor assumes there's something different and something better to come.
Inventing is an act of supreme optimism which refutes the existential notion that we are helpless creatures marooned on a rock spinning in space subject to the repetitive cycles of nature, tradition and convention. The act of invention articulates our ability to change our own lives; to make something happen rather than have things happen to us.
And while not all of us can invent things, we can all celebrate the revolutionary impulse which inspires us to think, to adapt, to experiment to build and to strive for discovery --- the driving force of our civilization.
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