Invention Quotes:

Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Genius, Invention, Mass, New Inventions

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Invention, Conscience

The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision...

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Circumcision, Invention, Lost, Ten Commandments

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.

- Alanna Ubach

topic: People, Firsts, Invention, New Inventions

Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Math, Negative, Invention

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

- Alexander Graham Bell

topic: Invention

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Dream, Add, Invention

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

topic: Revolution, Rebellious, Invention

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

- Alva Myrdal

topic: Communication, Discovery, Invention, Interchange, Reciprocal

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

- Amar Bose

source: "Spotlight: Amar Bose, the guru of sound design" by Roxana Popescu, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2007.

topic: Intelligent, Invention, Programming

After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.

- Andrea Pirlo

source: "The Bandinis 2013: an utterly exhaustive review of the Serie A season" by Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2013.

topic: Wheels, Invention, Playstation

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

- Angela Thirkell

topic: Lying, Sticks, Invention

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

- Ann Douglas

topic: Home, Invention

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

- Aristotle

topic: Mother, Motherhood, Invention, Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention

The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.

- Aulus Persius Flaccus

topic: Teacher, Art, Invention

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Science, Invention, Fixed

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Math, Employment, Invention

That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Opportunity, Invention, Advantage

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Order, Unity, Invention, Catalogues, Human Inventions

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

- Brian Selznick

topic: Fairy Tale, Invention, Tales

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.

- Carl Menger

topic: Invention, States

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Writing, Invention, Humans

The book is man's best invention so far.

- Carolina Maria de Jesus

source: Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

topic: Book, Men, Invention

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

- Carolyn Wells

topic: Mother, Guilty Conscience, Invention

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

- Caryl Rivers

source: Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

topic: Engineering, Political, Invention, Great Inventions

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

- Chiwetel Ejiofor

topic: Slavery, England, Invention

A weak invention of the Enemy.

- Colley Cibber

source: Colley Cibber (1700). “The Tragical History of King Richard III.: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal. By C. Cibber”, p.53

topic: Enemy, Weak, Invention

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

- Cornelia Otis Skinner

topic: Men, Virtue, Invention

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

- Damien Hirst

topic: Artist, Thinking, Invention, Reinventing Yourself

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

- Daniel Webster

topic: Men, House, Invention

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

- David Cronenberg

topic: Ideas, Revolution, Invention, Industrial Revolution

Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.

- David Gordon Green

source: Source: www.moviesonline.ca

topic: Invention, Projects, New Projects, New Inventions

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

- Deng Xiaoping

topic: Debate, Invention

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

- Diodorus Siculus

topic: Men, Helping, Invention, Hades

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

- Edgar Degas

topic: Invention, Tyranny, Recollection

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

- Edwin Land

topic: Business, Accepted, Invention, Alterations

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

- Edwin Percy Whipple

source: Edwin Percy Whipple (1861). “Essays and Reviews”, p.74

topic: Patents, Sin, Invention, New Inventions

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

- Eli Whitney

topic: Invention, Inventor, Valuable

Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!

- Ellen Kushner

topic: Invention, Fingertips, Fine

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

- Elsa Maxwell

topic: Cocktails, Culinary, Invention

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

- Erica Jong

topic: Men, Invention, Plugs, Nameless, Bathtubs

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Way, Invention, Inventor, Inventions And Inventors, Inventing

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

- Ethel Merman

source: Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

topic: Player, Discipline, Invention

Contentment: The smother of invention.

- Ethel Mumford

topic: Design, Contentment, Invention

Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry

- Ezra Pound

topic: Art, World, Invention, Green World

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

- Frances E. Willard

topic: Horse, Swiftness, Invention, Biking, Cyclists

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

- Fridtjof Nansen

topic: Lines, Retreat, Invention

Right is that which is not your invention. It is already there. If you go away from it you are wrong, if you come...

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Buddhist, Going Away, Invention

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

- Gene Wilder

topic: Invention, Electricity, Evaporation, Perspiration, Butterscotch

It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Thinking, Annoying, Invention

Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Men, Heaven, Invention

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Jesus, Modern, Invention

Necessity, the mother of invention.

- George Farquhar

source: "The Twin Rivals". Book by George Farquhar, 1702.

topic: Mother, Motherhood, Invention

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

- George Wald

topic: War, Crime, Invention, War Crimes

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

- Gerald Brenan

topic: Mother, Memories, Invention, Bad Memories

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

- Gustav Mahler

topic: Invention, Divine

The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Drinking, Perfect, Invention, Martini

The environment as we perceive it is our invention,

- Heinz von Foerster

source: Heinz von Foerster (2007). “Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition”, p.212, Springer Science & Business Media

topic: Environment, Invention, Perceive

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

- Helen Frankenthaler

topic: Art, Invention, Born, Breaking Rules, Artistic Freedom

The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.

- Henri Matisse

topic: Peculiar, Harmony, Invention

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

- Henry Fuseli

source: 1789 Aphorisms on Art, no.237, (published 1831).

topic: Landscape, Invention, Painter

Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

- Henry Tizard

topic: Science, Waiting, Invention, Wartime, Micawber

Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.

- Hudson Maxim

topic: Doubt, Inquiry, Invention, Overconfidence

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

- Hugh Jackman

topic: Coffee, Smell, Invention, Mornings And Coffee, Funny Coffee

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

- Ignazio Silone

topic: Destiny, Invention, Cowardly Acts, Cowardly

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

- Igor Stravinsky

topic: Confused, Imagination, Invention

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

- Isaac Asimov

topic: Mind, Invention, Humans

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

- James Dyson

topic: Fun, Lifetime, Invention

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

- James Dyson

topic: Battle, Invention, Court

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

- James Dyson

topic: Next, Moments, Invention, Great Inventions

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

- James Naismith

topic: Basketball, Needs, Invention, Handkerchiefs, Famous Basketball

Basketball is a pure invention,

- James Naismith

topic: Basketball, Invention

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Men, Littles, Invention, Copiers, Inventiveness

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Motivation, Intention, Invention

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

- Jared Diamond

topic: Improvement, Invention, Made, Successors

... inventions and purely human institutions.

- Jean Meslier

topic: Atheism, Invention, Institutions

To understand is to invent.

- Jean Piaget

source: Jean Piaget (1977). “Psychology and Epistemology: Towards a Theory of Knowledge”

topic: Invention

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

- Jeff Bezos

topic: Want, Invention, All Time, Disruptive

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

- Jeff Bezos

topic: Long, Misunderstood, Invention

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

- John Banville

topic: Invention, Sentences, Humans

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

- John Banville

topic: Civilization, Crafts, Invention, Human Inventions

All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions

- John Calvin

topic: Art, Invention, Divine

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

- John Galsworthy

source: John Galsworthy (2016). “The Man of Property”, p.6, Open Road Media

topic: Men, Facts, Invention

We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.

- John Keats

topic: Woven, World, Invention

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

- John Marsden

topic: Evil, Invention, Vicious

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

- John Philpot Curran

topic: Art, Firsts, Invention, Short Sighted

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

- John Stuart Mill

topic: Technology, Toil, Invention, Questionable, Human Inventions

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Invention, Ends

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Night, Turtles, Invention

There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.

- Josef Albers

topic: Art, Differences, Invention, Art And Science

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

- Joseph A. Schumpeter

topic: Innovation, Novelty, Invention

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

- Joseph Conrad

source: Some Reminiscences ch. 1 (1912)

topic: Art, Imagination, Invention

There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention...

- Joshua Reynolds

source: Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone (1809). “The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.159

topic: Mean, Doubt, Invention, No Doubt

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

- Judith Schaechter

topic: Demand, Artistic, Invention

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

- Karl Marx

topic: Intellectual, Invention, Force

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

- Karlheinz Stockhausen

topic: Inspiring, Discovery, Invention, Very Inspiring, Adventurer

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

- Kathy Lette

source: Kathy Lette (2012). “Altar Ego”, p.309, Random House

topic: Invention, Nobel, Inventor

No bra,” he said against her mouth. “Thank you. I hate those things. Dumbest human invention. Ever.

- Larissa Ione

topic: Hate, Mouths, Invention

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

- Lascelles Abercrombie

topic: Epic, Needs, Invention, Epic Poetry

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.

- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

topic: Photography, Art, Invention, Canon

Money is an invention of the marketplace of exchange, brought into being by traders who discovered that a reliable medium could facilitate trades that were more difficult or even impossible by barter alone.

- Lawrence Reed

topic: Impossible, Invention, Traders

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

- Lee Child

topic: Dawn, Storytelling, Invention

God forgives those who invent what they need.

- Lillian Hellman

topic: Forgiving, Needs, Invention, God Forgives

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

- Louis Kronenberger

topic: Adversity, Down And, Invention

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

- Madeline Miller

topic: Men, Foolish, Invention

Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.

- Mary Parker Follett

topic: Compromise, Conflict, Invention

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

- Michel Foucault

topic: Men, Invention, Ends, Archeology, Archaeology

Every invention eventually becomes obsolete.

- Mick Farren

source: Mick Farren (2010). “Darklost”, p.332, Macmillan

topic: Invention, Obsolete

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

- Mikhail Gorbachev

topic: Civilization, Invention, Century

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

- Mikhail Kalashnikov

source: "Kalashnikov: 'I wish I'd made a lawnmower'" by Kate Connolly, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2002.

topic: Proud, Invention, Used, I'm Sad, Ak 47

Life is composed of different inventions.

- Mikhail Kalashnikov

topic: Different, Life Is, Invention

America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.

- Nick Clooney

topic: America, Temples, Invention

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

- Nick Park

source: "A dog's life" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2005.

topic: Nice, Understanding, Invention, Nice Things

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

- Nicolas Roeg

source: "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

topic: Marketing, Invention, Fear Of Change

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

- Norman MacCaig

topic: Mimicry, Invention, Said

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

- Orson Welles

topic: Hollywood, Invention, Gangsters

Architecture is invention.

- Oscar Niemeyer

source: "Celebrating Niemeyer, Brazil's Modernist Master". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. November 12, 2010.

topic: Architecture, Invention

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

- Paul Virilio

topic: Inspirational, Ships, Invention, Shipwreck

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

- Percy Williams Bridgman

topic: Mathematics, Invention, Observation, Human Inventions

Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.

- Philippe Kahn

source: Q and A part of a speech at the Silicon Valley computer museum, 2005.

topic: Roots, Innovation, Invention

Invention breeds invention.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Innovation, Invention

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

- Ray Dolby

topic: Skills, People, Invention

[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.

- Reginald Fessenden

topic: Science, Progression, Invention

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

- Remy de Gourmont

topic: Men, Stupidity, Invention

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

- Richard Courant

source: Richard Courant (1948). “Lectures on the theory of functions”

topic: Invention, Masters, Mathematician, Analytics, Euler

And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of.

- Richard Ouzounian

topic: Toronto, Invention, Choreography, Comical

The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.

- Rick Warren

topic: Way, Purpose, Invention

But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.

- Robert Fulton

topic: Science, Different, Invention

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

- Rutherford B. Hayes

source: "Obama Energy Policy Speech: President Dismisses Republican Critics On Oil Drilling". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

topic: Want, Use, Invention

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.

- Samuel Smiles

topic: Mother, School, Invention

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

- Seymour Papert

topic: Teacher, Roles, Invention, Inspirational Teacher, Effective Teacher

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

- Shimon Peres

topic: Mirrors, Civilization, Invention

The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

- Spike Jonze

topic: Ipods, Use, Invention

Probably death is the best invention of life.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Invention

Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Life Lesson, Invention

God is Man's greatest invention

- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

topic: Men, Invention

Want is the mistress of invention

- Susanna Centlivre

source: Susanna Centlivre (1746). “The Busie Body. A comedy ... The fifth edition”, p.9

topic: Mistress, Want, Invention

Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions.

- Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

source: First Arab Conference on Arabizing the Internet, Amman, Jordan, April 01, 2001.

topic: Technology, Invention, Triggers, Additives

Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs?

- Tessa Dare

topic: Sight, Cuffs, Invention

Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspiration, Invention, Perspiration

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

- Thomas Cole

topic: Perfection, Invention

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

- Thomas Heatherwick

topic: Strong, Architecture, Invention

Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt.

- Thomas Huxley

source: "T. H. Huxley: Scientist, Humanist, and Educator". Book by Cyril Bibby, p. 257, 1950.

topic: Fire, Doubt, Invention

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Promise, Liberty, Invention, Inventions And Inventors, New Inventions

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

- Thomas More

topic: Men, Vanity, Invention

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

- Thomas Paine

topic: Christian, Science, Invention, Human Inventions

Invention is the mother of necessity.

- Thorstein Veblen

source: Thorstein Veblen (1994). “Absentee Ownership: Business Enterprise in Recent Times : the Case of America”, p.63, Transaction Publishers

topic: Mother, Favourite, Invention

The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.

- Thorsten Heins

source: "BlackBerry CEO calls Apple's iPhone user interface outdated" by Katie Marsal, appleinsider.com. March 18, 2013.

topic: Years, Iphone, Invention, Five Year Olds, User Interface

WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project

- Tim Berners-Lee

topic: Science, Proposal, Invention

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

- Townsend Harris

topic: Country, Hands, Invention

Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.

- Trevor Baylis

topic: Magic, Invention, Brands

Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.

- Viktor Schauberger

source: Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.149, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

topic: Renaissance, Ancient, Invention

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

- Walt Disney

topic: World, Fancy, Invention

Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment.

- Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

topic: Judgment, Invention, Results

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

- Whitney M. Young

source: Whitney M. Young (1964). “To be equal”

topic: Use, Invention, Ability

Without invention nothing is well-spaced.

- William Carlos Williams

topic: Invention, Wells

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.

- William Saroyan

topic: Invention, Biking, Mankind, Bikers, Bicycle

Necessity, mother of invention.

- William Wycherley

source: William Wycherley (1731). “Plays Written by Mr. William Wycherley: Containing The Plain Dealer, The Country Wife, Gentleman Dancing Master, Love in a Wood...”, p.403

topic: Mother, Motherhood, Invention

Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Science, Filth, Invention

Some of my inventions didn't take off. I invented a url lengthener.

- Andy Kindler

topic: Invention

Without question the AK-47 was a remarkable invention, and not just because it works so well, or because it changed how wars are fought, or because it proved to be one of the most important products of the 20th century.

- C. J. Chivers

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: War, Important, Invention

Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job.

- G. Harry Stine

topic: Jobs, Lasers, Invention, Looking For A Job

The popcorn button on the microwave is a miraculous invention. More miraculous than even the microwave itself.

- Gary Gulman

topic: Buttons, Popcorn, Invention, Microwaves

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

- Israel Horovitz

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Actors, Invention, Theater

Creativity is an integral part of our personality.

- Jerzy Vetulani

topic: Creativity, Personality, Invention

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

- June Millington

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Mother, Invention, Senses

I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight.

- Kathleen Rooney

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Facts, Trouble, Invention

The invention of Instagram and Twitter has made, like, a big difference. Because you can just talk to anybody. And find anybody, it feels like.

- Nicolas Cowan

topic: Differences, Instagram, Invention

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

- Ninon de L'Enclos

topic: Virtue, Feminine, Invention

That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it.

- Rich Fulcher

topic: Thinking, People, Invention

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

- Tim O'Reilly

topic: Ukulele, World, Invention

Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative.

- Braden Kelley

topic: Innovation, Alternatives, Invention

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

- Michael Craig-Martin

source: Source: www.artzip.org

topic: Art, Invention, Observation

Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.

- Chris Lowe

topic: Men, Idiot, Invention

Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.

- Rolf Dobelli

topic: Might, Invention, Dangerous

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

- Guy Deutscher

source: Guy Deutscher (2006). “The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention”, p.1, Macmillan

topic: Language, Invention, Mankind

When you have no money, you need invention.

- John Carpenter

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Needs, Invention, No Money

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

- Leonardo da Vinci

source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (translation by Edward MacCurdy)

topic: Inspirational, Nature, Invention, Subtlety, Inventing Things

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

- Leonardo da Vinci

source: Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

topic: Book, Mechanic, Invention

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Men, May, Invention, Written Word

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

- Jean Cocteau

topic: Poetry, Poetic, Invention, Great Poetry

The phrase, 'Emancipation of Women' is only an invention of the Jewish intellect and its content is stamped with the same spirit. In the really good periods of German life the German woman never needed to emancipate herself.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Phrases, Spirit, Invention

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

- Francis Bacon

source: Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1825). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.183

topic: Science, Invention, Knows

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?

- Jean-Luc Godard

topic: Photography, Invention

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

- Jeff Bezos

source: "The best business advice from Jeff Bezos" by Eugene Kim, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2016.

topic: Invention, Optional, Parcel

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

- Paul Simon

topic: Invention, Not Interested

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

- Frank Herbert

source: Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.352, Penguin

topic: Race, History, Invention

Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

- Paul Theroux

source: Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Play, Actors, Invention, Rehearsing, Sightseeing

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

- Steve Jobs

source: Playboy Interview, genius.com.

topic: Thinking, Wonderful, Invention

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Ideas, Judgement, Invention

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.48, Open Road Media

topic: Men, Intellectual, Invention

Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Bankers, Debt, Invention, Compound Interest

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Devil, Quiet, Invention

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

topic: Art, Powerful, Invention

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

topic: Invention, Breasts, Pleasant

Time is a very useful concept in terms of survival. It's extraordinary that we can delineate a day into segments so that we can actually look at those segments, examine them, and see what worked and what didn't' work. We get very attached to time because it's a power, this invention of time is very powerful, and we like power.

- Gangaji

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Powerful, Survival, Invention

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

- Alfred North Whitehead

source: Science and the ModernWorld ch. 6 (1925)

topic: Invention, Century, Nineteenth Century

Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

- Plato

topic: Mother, Invention

Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.

- Plato

topic: Believe, Mind, Invention

Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

- Plato

source: Plato (2015). “The Republic”, p.75, First Avenue Editions

topic: Mother, Invention