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"I've invented the wheel but I don't want anybody to know about it yet."

"Og discovered fire, and Thorak invented the wheel. There's nothing left for us."

8000BC invention of the printing process.

Early tech support

'This really is an innovative approach, but I'm afraid we can't consider it. It's never been done before.'

'Your proposal is innovative, Unfortunately we won't be able to use it because we've never tried something like this before,'

'There's talk of innovation out here. Winds of change are headed your way. Lock your door, pull the shades and hide under your desk.'

Your proposal is bold and innovative but we are a traditional corporation. I would prefer changes like the ones we've tried before

"After fire and the wheel, it was only logical to invent the patent attorney."

'...Any ideas for a product?'

'It's so new we don't know what it does, but nobody else has it so we're selling the hell out of it.'

"My next big project is brakes."

'I was close to a breakthrough when the grant money ran out.'

'I have an idea...let's start thinking outside the box.'

Caveman turning the wheel into a bar.

Unfortunately, napkins hadn't been invented yet, so good ideas were quickly forgotten.

'Well, SURE they'd like me to come up with bold and innovative ideas...but I've got a career to protect!'

"Ralph is doing a preliminary study of re-inventing the wheel."

'It's not easy being ahead of your time.'

'Typical inventor - failing to see the consequences of his own creation.'

A rock, a little wiggle room, and a Hard Place.

'Smith, we need more creativity. You have to learn to think outside the box.'

'Other days you can hear a pin drop.'

'It's a new design to save water.'

'They never let you forget that your intellectual property belongs to them.'

'Oh course!'

'My invention is even more remarkable than yours. It is the simple declarative sentence.'

Cave man invents wheel, but uses it as a paper-weight.

'In retrospect, maybe we should have spent a little more on R&D.'

"If you ask me between your stuff and my stuff, there's just nothing left to invent."

'Our school computers are a month old. How can we become competitive in our job market if we're being trained on obsolete equipment?'

'Your proposal is innovative but I'm afraid I can't use it. I'm comfortable with the current failing procedures.'

'Inventing it was easy. The hard part will be to monetize it.'

'Ok, you invented the wheel, but what have you done for me lately?'

'I find it harder and harder to get any work done with all the ethicists hanging around.'