Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative. — Braden Kelley Copy Share Image
Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until… — Alex Chiu Copy Share Image
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed. — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away. — John Wagner Copy Share Image
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
In my heart I believe that biology is the beginning and the end of everything. It's the biggest source of ideas, the… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
You're grumpy and broody and secretive all the time. You're no joy to live with, I can tell you that!""I smile sometimes.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from… — Carl Mitcham Copy Share Image
We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I… — Jimmy Carl Black Copy Share Image
People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written.… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through… — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
I like to capture the spirit of what the writers intended but find my own nuances. That comes from jazz - the… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth -… — Michael Hainey Copy Share Image
Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research. — Arthur E. Kennelly Copy Share Image
Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone,… — George Iles Copy Share Image
I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It… — Joan Wickersham Copy Share Image
“The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
![“I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it…” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dff/jane-austen-39_deals_i-read-it-history-a-little-as-a-duty-but_2713541.jpg)
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