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Tag Name "Mousetrap" (15)

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Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
Albert Einstein
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
Charles Darwin
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Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.
Jeanette Winterson
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... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.
Julius Lester
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If you think you have a better mousetrap or car, or shirt, or whatever, you've got to tell people.
Lee Clow
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Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.
Mortimer Zuckerman
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Playing Sgt, Trotter in 'The Mousetrap' is the same as playing Scripps in 'The History Boys,' in the sense that they're dream roles that I've always wanted to do. The fact they're letting me do this professionally and I'm getting paid for it, I find astonishing.
Thomas Howes
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
Alan Greenspan
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I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.
Anna Quindlen
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The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners.
Daymond John
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A virtuous girl never chases after boys who ever saw a mousetrap chasing mice?
Julian Tuwim
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If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.
Lawrence Block
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If you take away a rock from a pile of rocks you haven't changed much. It's still a heap of rocks - just a rock or two smaller. Take away a component from the mousetrap and it isn't a mousetrap any more.
Michael Behe
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby.
Tom Waits