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
Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
“He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.” — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
“Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the… — Cameron Mackintosh Copy Share Image
Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives. — Jay Inslee Copy Share Image
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Architects typically inherit programmes or sites. We maybe twist the programme a little bit, bring our own invention into it, and we… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I really want to go into the future 500 years and be a quantum physicist. Not only would I get to see… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Creativity is one of the most important brain functions in developing youth. It is the ultimate road to invention. I believe it… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads,… — George B. Cortelyou Copy Share Image
Simply according artistic works the same protection as nonartistic works may not be sufficient to protect creativity. After all, the very essence… — Irving Kaufman Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
UKIP's success would never have happened without the invention of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
If Necessity Is the Mother of Invention then Frustration is Father Of Creativity.. — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since! — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention. — Hudson Maxim Copy Share Image
The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions. — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
