Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. (Henri Poincaré)

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

Henri Poincaré

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