My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention. — Chris Lowe Copy Share Image
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore. — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
“Every wheel wish to be the wheel of a car, and not of just another vehicle.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention. — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility. — Nicky Wire Copy Share Image
Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Schools often box kids into predefined categories. But we don't know what amazing ideas, inventions, cures, and contributions all these youths really… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
This concern for the poor is in the Gospel, it is within the tradition of the Church, it is not an invention… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it… — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It's once I discover the people inside that the story really gets going, and then the formal invention becomes less important. It's… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
I've always liked the idea of inventing stuff. My father told me, because I was naïve, I would think things could work… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“[The screw machine] was on the principle of the gauge or sliding lathe now in every workshop throughout the world; the perfection… — David Wilkinson Copy Share Image
The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are not missed. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention. — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry. — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists. — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified. — Roberto Fontanarrosa Copy Share Image
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