Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation. — George Takei Copy Share Image
Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future. — Philippe Kahn Copy Share Image
Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Love is an old invention but it is one that is always new. Make the most of it.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. — James Naismith Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if you think that the styrofoam cooler is the greatest invention of all time. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes. — Robert Brustein Copy Share Image
Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
“This box is useless," said Alliance 6-7349. Should it be what they claim of it," said Harmony 9-2642, "then it would bring… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Everything either is, was or will be. Time doesn't really exist. It's just something we have made up that makes it easier… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
When I go to Fire Island, it's always sort of the same thing. Everyone is coexisting, and isn't that nice? But also,… — Bowen Yang Copy Share Image
It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead buy or… — Henry Chesbrough Copy Share Image
Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies,… — Peter Ho Davies 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
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
How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make. — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand. — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere. — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention. — Joseph Jastrow Copy Share Image
If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Who was the first that forged the deadly blade? Of rugged steel his savage soul was made.” — Tibullus Copy Share Image
Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
