Invention Quotes

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

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

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

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

That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special skills and are not apt to.

Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.

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

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

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

Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking.

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.

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

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

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

Interest is the invention of Satan.

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

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

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

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

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

The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

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

By and large books are mankind's best invention.

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

Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

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

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

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

Without invention nothing is well-spaced.

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

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

This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.

"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.

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

Necessity, mother of invention.

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?

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

Scientists believe that the invention of clothing in Africa was a key factor in allowing our ancestors to migrate into colder climates and to spread across the globe.

Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to se

Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can’t see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can’t feel.

Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.