Re Invention Quotes
The popcorn button on the microwave is a miraculous invention. More miraculous than even the microwave itself.
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.
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.
A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention.
Every invention creates new needs, but the biggest needs are not for new and more advanced versions of the last invention but for solutions to the social problems the last invention created.
Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.
The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.
The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
The book. The book...think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever.
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.
The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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.
Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.
The promise of business is to increase the general well-being of humankind through service, a creative invention and ethical philosophy.
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!
You might be a redneck if you think that the styrofoam cooler is the greatest invention of all time.
Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.
The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.
I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.
Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress.