Went to the Patent Office to register some of my inventions. Went to the main desk to sign in and the lady at the desk gave me a form to fill out. She wrote down my personal info and then asked what I had invented.
I said, “A folding bottle.”
She said, “Okay. What do you call it?”
“A Fottle.”
“What else do you have?”
“A folding carton.”
“What do you call it?”
“A Farton.”
She sniggered and said, “Those are silly names for products and one of them sounds kind of crude.”
I was so upset by her comment I grabbed the form and left the office without even telling her about my folding bucket.
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” Albert Einstein
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