Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“That was a stupid idea I made up while drunk. Why did someone build that?” — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
People have enough ideas. The real question is "Which ideas are you going to use?". — Michael Ray Copy Share Image
For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision... — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only… — Jane Haddam Copy Share Image
Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves. — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Stayed up and watched a little spanktrovision. It's the American way. There's really nothing wrong with spanktrovision. One of the best inventions… — David Spade Copy Share Image
Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down. — Henry Tizard Copy Share Image
All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific… — Paul Flory Copy Share Image
At Facebook, we’re inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty. — Robert Fulton Copy Share Image
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Every invention was borne out of impossible. So impossible does not exist in the world of development. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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