Invention Quotes - Page 4

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

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

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't underestimate the value of that. But they're not designed to take care of social needs.

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

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

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

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

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

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

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

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

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.

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

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

I'm onstage for an hour.I do an hour of stand-up. Actually, I do 10 minutes standing up and 50 minutes sitting in a chair. Oh, occasionally, I stand up again to do a dance or put over a song. But mostly I sit down. A great invention, sitting down.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to his own invention is a very different matter. It is no more a monopoly for him to possess that, than to possess his own homestead .

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.

I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

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

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Invention hovers always a little above the rules.