Quotes about Invention

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. Votes: 4

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. Votes: 4

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble. Votes: 4

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. Votes: 4

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Votes: 4

Invention breeds invention. Votes: 3

Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration Votes: 3

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Votes: 3

Invention is the mother of necessity. Votes: 3

Invention is the mother of necessities. Votes: 3

Invention is totally independent of the will. Votes: 3

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling. Votes: 3

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood. Votes: 3

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed. Votes: 3

Invention hovers always a little above the rules. Votes: 3

Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking. Votes: 3

Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one. Votes: 3

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. Votes: 3

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination. Votes: 3

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct. Votes: 3

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. Votes: 3

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple Votes: 3

Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment. Votes: 3

Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go. Votes: 3

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. Votes: 3

Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse. Votes: 3

Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention. Votes: 3

Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition. Votes: 3

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret Votes: 3

Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough. Votes: 3

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams. Votes: 3

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . . Votes: 3

Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future. Votes: 3

Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself. Votes: 3

Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect. Votes: 3

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. Votes: 3

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority." Votes: 3

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new. Votes: 3

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes. Votes: 3

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. Votes: 3

Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked. Votes: 3

Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it, Votes: 3

When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas. Votes: 3

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex. Votes: 3

Necessity... the mother of invention. Votes: 2

Necessity, the mother of invention. Votes: 2

Doubt is the father of invention. Votes: 2

Mothers are the necessity of invention. Votes: 2

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. Votes: 2

Dictators never invent their own opportunities. Votes: 2

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. Votes: 2

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. Votes: 2

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Votes: 2

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. Votes: 2

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. Votes: 2

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. Votes: 2

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists. Votes: 2

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. Votes: 2

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. Votes: 2

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. Votes: 2

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. Votes: 2

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. Votes: 2

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. Votes: 2

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. Votes: 2

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. Votes: 2

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge. Votes: 2

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need. Votes: 2

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. Votes: 2

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. Votes: 2

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. Votes: 2

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. Votes: 2

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.' Votes: 2

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Votes: 2

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs. Votes: 2

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. Votes: 2

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me. Votes: 2

No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world. Votes: 2

Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people. Votes: 2

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities. Votes: 2

It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.' Votes: 2

The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization. Votes: 2

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. Votes: 2

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth. Votes: 2

With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes. Votes: 2

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

Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor. Votes: 1

Architecture is invention. Votes: 0

Failure is your invention. Votes: 0

Necessity, mother of invention. Votes: 0

Every invention eventually becomes obsolete. Votes: 0

Without invention nothing is well-spaced. Votes: 0

Contentment: The smother of invention. Votes: 0

Conscience is a Jewish invention. Votes: 0

We should have more invention. Votes: 0

God is Man's greatest invention Votes: 0

Basketball is a pure invention, Votes: 0

A story is a wondrous invention. Votes: 0

A weak invention of the Enemy. Votes: 0

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention! Votes: 0

Want is the mistress of invention Votes: 0

Interest is the invention of Satan. Votes: 0

Hollywood is a land of self-invention. Votes: 0

History is the invention of historians. Votes: 0

Every invention began as an imagination. Votes: 0

Afternoon classes - that evil invention! Votes: 0

Money is only a human invention. Votes: 0

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention. Votes: 0

Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention. Votes: 0

America demands invention and innovation to succeed. Votes: 0

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. Votes: 0

Necessity is the mother of all invention. Votes: 0

Nor age so eat up my invention. Votes: 0

Necessity is literally the mother of invention. Votes: 0

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom? Votes: 0

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention. Votes: 0

Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention. Votes: 0

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter. Votes: 0

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity, Votes: 0

Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven. Votes: 0

By and large books are mankind's best invention. Votes: 0

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind. Votes: 0

Probably death is the best invention of life. Votes: 0

When you have no money, you need invention. Votes: 0

Writing is the great invention of the world. Votes: 0

Remembering is a great invention of the mind. Votes: 0

The book is man's best invention so far. Votes: 0

A bad memory is the mother of invention. Votes: 0

Necessity, who is the mother of our invention. Votes: 0

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. Votes: 0

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. Votes: 0

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention Votes: 0

Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention Votes: 0

Fermentation may have been a better invention than fire. Votes: 0

Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention. Votes: 0

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention. Votes: 0

Religion is a good invention in times of stress. Votes: 0

I never have trouble keeping fact and invention straight. Votes: 0

The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention. Votes: 0

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation. Votes: 0

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization. Votes: 0

After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation. Votes: 0

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Votes: 0

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery. Votes: 0

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity. Votes: 0

I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever. Votes: 0

The environment as we perceive it is our invention, Votes: 0

The concept of war crimes is an American invention. Votes: 0

Art is more to do with observation than invention. Votes: 0

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil. Votes: 0

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil Votes: 0

The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's. Votes: 0

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. Votes: 0

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention Votes: 0

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised. Votes: 0

The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's. Votes: 0

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It's not optional. Votes: 0

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. Votes: 0

But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery. Votes: 0

Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven. Votes: 0

Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention. Votes: 0

The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings. Votes: 0

Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease. Votes: 0

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father. Votes: 0

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved. Votes: 0

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. Votes: 0

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel. Votes: 0

Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention. Votes: 0

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution Votes: 0

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention. Votes: 0

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention. Votes: 0

Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. Votes: 0

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination. Votes: 0

Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education, Votes: 0

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror. Votes: 0

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation. Votes: 0

A new invention to poison people ... is not a patentable invention. Votes: 0

The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art. Votes: 0

Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job. Votes: 0

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father. Votes: 0

America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore. Votes: 0

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil Votes: 0

The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet. Votes: 0

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. Votes: 0

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention. Votes: 0

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer. Votes: 0

Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention. Votes: 0

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift. Votes: 0

I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps. Votes: 0

Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead. Votes: 0

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child. Votes: 0

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace. Votes: 0

In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. Votes: 0

Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss. Votes: 0

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish. Votes: 0

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times. Votes: 0

Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses. Votes: 0

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. Votes: 0

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. Votes: 0

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality. Votes: 0

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. Votes: 0

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. Votes: 0

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. Votes: 0

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one? Votes: 0

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck. Votes: 0

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse! Votes: 0

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention. Votes: 0

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. Votes: 0

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. Votes: 0

Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make. Votes: 0

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true. Votes: 0

If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified. Votes: 0

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention. Votes: 0

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried. Votes: 0

Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention. Votes: 0

Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention. Votes: 0

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor, Votes: 0

Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt. Votes: 0

The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention. Votes: 0

We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away. Votes: 0

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution. Votes: 0

For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade. Votes: 0

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. Votes: 0

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind Votes: 0

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living. Votes: 0

music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. Votes: 0

Language is mankind's greatest invention "“ except, of course, that it was never invented. Votes: 0

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention. Votes: 0

One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ. Votes: 0

Being able to check your balance on the phone is the best invention ever. Votes: 0

The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention. Votes: 0

A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt. Votes: 0

Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again so is a bicycle repair kit. Votes: 0

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage. Votes: 0

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage. Votes: 0

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth. Votes: 0

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow. Votes: 0

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that. Votes: 0

I will vanish in the morning light; I was only an invention of darkness. Votes: 0

Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really Votes: 0

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents. Votes: 0

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. Votes: 0

Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility. Votes: 0

Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back. Votes: 0

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. Votes: 0

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention. Votes: 0

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. Votes: 0

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention. Votes: 0

I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. Votes: 0

Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years. Votes: 0

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Votes: 0

The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere. Votes: 0

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one. Votes: 0

Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder. Votes: 0

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word. Votes: 0

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling. Votes: 0

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. Votes: 0

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA. Votes: 0

Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society. Votes: 0

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition. Votes: 0

The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting. Votes: 0

Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry Votes: 0

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention Votes: 0

Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine. Votes: 0

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. Votes: 0

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth Votes: 0

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention. Votes: 0

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand. Votes: 0

What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn. Votes: 0

The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence. Votes: 0

Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention. Votes: 0

I'm not the marrying kind -St. Vincent snorted. No man is. Marriage is a female invention. Votes: 0

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry. Votes: 0

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention. Votes: 0

Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency. Votes: 0

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. Votes: 0

Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative. Votes: 0

Plant the seeds of desire in the field of imagination to grow the harvest of invention. Votes: 0

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire. Votes: 0

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met. Votes: 0

Plant the seed of desire in the field of imagination to grow the harvest of invention. Votes: 0

If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research. Votes: 0

In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters. Votes: 0

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology. Votes: 0

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity. Votes: 0

Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions. Votes: 0

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice. Votes: 0

The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception. Votes: 0

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention. Votes: 0

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. Votes: 0

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter Votes: 0

The popcorn button on the microwave is a miraculous invention. More miraculous than even the microwave itself. Votes: 0

Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos! Votes: 0

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us. Votes: 0

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. Votes: 0

Radio... that wonderful invention by which I can reach millions of people... who fortunately can't reach me. Votes: 0

The discovery of an important need is almost as important as the invention which satisfies this need. Votes: 0

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. Votes: 0

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. Votes: 0

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous. Votes: 0

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful. Votes: 0

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Votes: 0

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false? Votes: 0

If everything is God's will, then so is the invention of the vaccine, just like the seatbelt. Votes: 0

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention. Votes: 0

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth. Votes: 0

There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy. Votes: 0

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention. Votes: 0

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. Votes: 0

Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper. Votes: 0

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear. Votes: 0

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals? Votes: 0

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before. Votes: 0

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it. Votes: 0

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started. Votes: 0

The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'. Votes: 0

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving. Votes: 0

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today. Votes: 0

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. Votes: 0

I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out. Votes: 0

The book. The book...think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever. Votes: 0

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child. Votes: 0

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention. Votes: 0

Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book. Votes: 0

Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined. Votes: 0

The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision... Votes: 0

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention. Votes: 0

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. Votes: 0

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. Votes: 0

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention. Votes: 0

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. Votes: 0

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors. Votes: 0

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate Votes: 0

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top Votes: 0

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention. Votes: 0

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences. Votes: 0

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. Votes: 0

You might be a redneck if you think that the styrofoam cooler is the greatest invention of all time. Votes: 0

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. Votes: 0

By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America's potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility. Votes: 0

Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out Votes: 0

There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention... Votes: 0

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will. Votes: 0

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees. Votes: 0

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention. Votes: 0

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. Votes: 0

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate. Votes: 0

This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week. Votes: 0

We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention. Votes: 0

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence. Votes: 0

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences. Votes: 0

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes. Votes: 0

I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography. Votes: 0

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression. Votes: 0

No bra,” he said against her mouth. “Thank you. I hate those things. Dumbest human invention. Ever. Votes: 0

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention. Votes: 0

On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing. Votes: 0

We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention. Votes: 0

Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away. Votes: 0

It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it. Votes: 0

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest? Votes: 0

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. Votes: 0

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention. Votes: 0

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. Votes: 0

I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity. Votes: 0

A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility. Votes: 0

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. Votes: 0

The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy. Votes: 0

With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. Votes: 0

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. Votes: 0

I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages. Votes: 0

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. Votes: 0

I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty. Votes: 0

So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries. Votes: 0

Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity. Votes: 0

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. Votes: 0

Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world. Votes: 0

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed. Votes: 0

Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs? Votes: 0

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails. Votes: 0

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention. Votes: 0

And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of. Votes: 0

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. Votes: 0

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. Votes: 0

Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time. Votes: 0

The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies. Votes: 0

I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy. Votes: 0

Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled. Votes: 0

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived Votes: 0

The invention of printing radically changed ways of thinking ¾ not just how things are communicated, but what can be thought Votes: 0

Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive. Votes: 0

It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion. Votes: 0

The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself. Votes: 0

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention. Votes: 0

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. Votes: 0

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end. Votes: 0

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games. Votes: 0

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. Votes: 0

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention. Votes: 0

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes. Votes: 0

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. Votes: 0

The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version. Votes: 0

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art. Votes: 0

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. Votes: 0

I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. Votes: 0

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading. Votes: 0

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. Votes: 0

The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity. Votes: 0

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention. Votes: 0

Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry. Votes: 0

The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks. Votes: 0

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention. Votes: 0

The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old. Votes: 0

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. Votes: 0

The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts. Votes: 0

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books. Votes: 0

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness. Votes: 0

As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs. Votes: 0

All our civilization is based on invention; before invention, men lived on fruits and nuts and pine cones and slept in caves. Votes: 0

You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people. Votes: 0

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. Votes: 0

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves. Votes: 0

I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century. Votes: 0

I just realized that with the invention of the iPhone and others you now get to see the top of people's heads. Votes: 0

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. Votes: 0

Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn't feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad. Votes: 0

The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences. Votes: 0

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty. Votes: 0

Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at heart. Votes: 0

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry. Votes: 0

An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture. Votes: 0

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

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. Votes: 0

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure. Votes: 0

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde. Votes: 0

It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting. Votes: 0

In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel. Votes: 0

I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention. Votes: 0

Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch. Votes: 0

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing. Votes: 0

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought. Votes: 0

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses Votes: 0

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought. Votes: 0

Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event. Votes: 0

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles. Votes: 0

I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is great! Votes: 0

Bush explained his fundamental concept to me, that freedom is not an American invention, but rather a gift from God to all people. Votes: 0

I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction writers. Votes: 0

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from. Votes: 0

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses. Votes: 0

Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both. Votes: 0

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. Votes: 0

We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age. Votes: 0

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. Votes: 0

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. Votes: 0

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention. Votes: 0

On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist. Votes: 0

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human. Votes: 0

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society. Votes: 0

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. Votes: 0

Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse. Votes: 0

Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days. Votes: 0

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor. Votes: 0

Horses are not for riding! They do not exist for riding! Horse riding is man's invention! It is the making up of human benefit! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove. Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness. Votes: 0

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question. Votes: 0

Right is that which is not your invention. It is already there. If you go away from it you are wrong, if you come... Votes: 0

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not. Votes: 0

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college. Votes: 0

Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool... Votes: 0

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation ... Votes: 0

The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok's wonder The Puppet Show. Votes: 0

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good. Votes: 0

Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all. Votes: 0

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man. Votes: 0

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one. Votes: 0

I think the inner person is the most important.... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important. Votes: 0

I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention. Votes: 0

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity. Votes: 0

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning. Votes: 0

Why would you go anyplace without your iPad? This is the greatest invention. When it gets a little more power, my God. It's like my office. Votes: 0

Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture. Votes: 0

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living. Votes: 0

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: 0

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention. Votes: 0

A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder. Votes: 0

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy! Votes: 0

They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them. Votes: 0

Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. Votes: 0

Call waiting was, for me, that was like the best invention ever, because there was four kids in my family, and to get on the phone was impossible. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer. Votes: 0

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail. Votes: 0

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius. Votes: 0