Found at Bijourenaissenceman
In 1882 I was in Vienna, where I met an American whom I had known in the States. He said: 'Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each others' throats with greater facility.' - Hiram P. Maxim, inventor of the water cooled machine gun
I wonder which might make you wealthier; Inventing a working FTL space drive or inventing a functional, long-range death ray.
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