Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. Votes: 4
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyInvention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. Votes: 4
Mary ShelleyInvention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct. Votes: 3
Samuel JohnsonInvention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment. Votes: 3
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of RoscommonInvention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. Votes: 3
William CongreveInventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention. Votes: 3
Joseph JastrowFairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret Votes: 3
Brian SelznickInvention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough. Votes: 3
Julie NewmarInvention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . . Votes: 3
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonInvention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future. Votes: 3
Philippe KahnIn her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. Votes: 2
Leonardo da VinciNo amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. Votes: 2
Edward HopperThe digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. Votes: 2
Demetri MartinAmerica did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. Votes: 2
Jimmy CarterOnly an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. Votes: 2
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. Votes: 2
Kurt VonnegutThe invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. Votes: 2
Ha-Joon ChangNecessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. Votes: 2
Samuel RichardsonWhat makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. Votes: 2
John BergerThe digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. Votes: 2
Douglas EngelbartI never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. Votes: 2
Thomas A. EdisonThe silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's. Votes: 0
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodCommunity colleges are the great American invention in terms of education, Votes: 0
Eduardo J. PadronWhen systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation. Votes: 0
Jacqueline NovogratzThe moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination. Votes: 0
Augustus De MorganDifficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention. Votes: 0
Carisa BianchiGutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution Votes: 0
Victor HugoThe invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art. Votes: 0
Laszlo Moholy-NagyI didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. Votes: 0
Thomas A. EdisonGalileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer. Votes: 0
Christian Nestell BoveeThe European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace. Votes: 0
John BrutonKissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss. Votes: 0
Tom RobbinsIn England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. Votes: 0
Chiwetel EjioforIn England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. Votes: 0
Chiwetel EjioforFiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. Votes: 0
Edmund BurkeThe limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times. Votes: 0
Nicholas Murray ButlerFacts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention. Votes: 0
Alasdair MacIntyreNo employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinThe stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention. Votes: 0
Aulus Persius FlaccusIf TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified. Votes: 0
Roberto FontanarrosaSheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention. Votes: 0
Richard Brinsley SheridanIf necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. Votes: 0
David RockefellerWhere Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. Votes: 0
Jonathan SwiftMachine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make. Votes: 0
Nick BostromA nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliO! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareMarriage is a wonderful invention; but then again so is a bicycle repair kit. Votes: 0
Billy ConnollyNecessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage. Votes: 0
Michael JosephsonIn the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that. Votes: 0
Jonathan Safran FoerOne minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ. Votes: 0
William CongreveThe idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution. Votes: 0
David CronenbergThe continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living. Votes: 0
John Zachary YoungMorality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really Votes: 0
Manu JosephLanguage is mankind's greatest invention " except, of course, that it was never invented. Votes: 0
Guy Deutschermusic, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonThe truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention. Votes: 0
Del CloseExercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder. Votes: 0
Horace WalpoleThe invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Votes: 0
James NaismithThe invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere. Votes: 0
Spike JonzeGuilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years. Votes: 0
Rita Mae BrownI call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. Votes: 0
Tony HoarePainting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention. Votes: 0
Philip Gilbert HamertonSometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back. Votes: 0
Margaret MeadThe imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. Votes: 0
Iain McGilchristAn invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinArnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility. Votes: 0
Bob HopeYou can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. Votes: 0
David HockneyAll perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. Votes: 0
Rudolf ArnheimI said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry. Votes: 0
Norman MacCaigBe alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. Votes: 0
Nikola TeslaLearn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry Votes: 0
Ezra PoundWar is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice. Votes: 0
Norman CousinsPlant the seed of desire in the field of imagination to grow the harvest of invention. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaPlant the seeds of desire in the field of imagination to grow the harvest of invention. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaThe steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleI'm not the marrying kind -St. Vincent snorted. No man is. Marriage is a female invention. Votes: 0
Lisa KleypasRetirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth Votes: 0
Mason CooleyThe thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling. Votes: 0
Lee ChildAll invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met. Votes: 0
Theodore ZeldinIn general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters. Votes: 0
Mario Vargas LlosaAbove all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology. Votes: 0
Peter DruckerIt is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity. Votes: 0
Michael ServetusThe issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonOur ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention. Votes: 0
Whitney M. YoungFaith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency. Votes: 0
Emily DickinsonGentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawNecessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention. Votes: 0
William ShenstoneThe greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA. Votes: 0
Lewis ThomasThe strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheIf words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauDon't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine. Votes: 0
Austin KleonSince the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand. Votes: 0
Townsend HarrisDoubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention. Votes: 0
Hudson MaximNecessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. Votes: 0
Joseph ConradMoney is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Votes: 0
Carl MengerIt is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheWas there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false? Votes: 0
Mason CooleyTortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneIf everything is God's will, then so is the invention of the vaccine, just like the seatbelt. Votes: 0
Els BorstI'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention. Votes: 0
Lisa KleypasThe myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous. Votes: 0
Diodorus SiculusThere is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonToday, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful. Votes: 0
Oscar NiemeyerAn invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started. Votes: 0
Tim O'ReillyLife is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined. Votes: 0
Etgar KeretToday every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear. Votes: 0
Bertolt BrechtIt's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving. Votes: 0
John LanchesterI don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it. Votes: 0
Gloria SteinemNever will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child. Votes: 0
Carl SandburgThe book. The book...think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever. Votes: 0
Jann ArdenIf I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence. Votes: 0
John BanvilleThis play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week. Votes: 0
Bill IrwinHope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out Votes: 0
Emily DickinsonThere can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention... Votes: 0
Joshua ReynoldsMan is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. Votes: 0
Tom ClancyYou might be a redneck if you think that the styrofoam cooler is the greatest invention of all time. Votes: 0
Jeff FoxworthyWe have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention. Votes: 0
John KeatsIt's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it. Votes: 0
Tim FinnThought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. Votes: 3 Claude M. Bristol
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly. Votes: 0 Daniel Webster
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago. Votes: 2 Robert Moog
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio. Votes: 1 Jamais Cascio
What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture. Votes: 2 David Gerrold