Invention Quotes - Page 9

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.

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

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

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

Without invention nothing is well-spaced.

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

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

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

Money is only a human invention.

By and large books are mankind's best invention.

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

Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.

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

The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.

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

Interest is the invention of Satan.

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

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

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

The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

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

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

There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.