Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. — Dave Barry 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
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
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
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
You know the expression, 'Necessity is the mother of Invention'? It's gotten completely reversed. Now, it's 'Invention is the mother of Necessity.'… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always… — Plato 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
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence… — Sam Hughes Copy Share Image
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time. — Viktor Schauberger 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
“Sometimes, the things They say, the laws They make, the way the world spins doesn't make any sense at all... Which is… — Joe Kelly Copy Share Image
And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of. — Richard Ouzounian Copy Share Image
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty. — David Batstone Copy Share Image
I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every… — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world. — Adam Hart-Davis Copy Share Image
The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again… — George Will Copy Share Image
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
