Invention Quotes

People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and "black people."

My current computer, in addition to 'DOS,' has 'Windows,' which is another invention of Bill Gates, designed as a security measure to thwart those users who are somehow able to get past DOS.

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

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

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

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.

Our relationship with nature has changed radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with invention. Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.

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

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

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

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

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

A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution are enthusiast stuff. Invention and evolution are engineering.

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

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

Contentment: The smother of invention.

Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

In this time of recession, it is the time for invention. Did you know both the telephone and the automobile were invented during recessions? So was 'talking dirty.'

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

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

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

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

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

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

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

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

People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

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

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

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

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany

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

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

Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

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

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.

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

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.

The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the courage to try their invention out on themselves.

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

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

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.

The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?

Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.

In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation.