Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Old companies that had nothing to do with software in the past all have software development activities to unlock the invention that's… — Peter Levine Copy Share Image
I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' and The Mothers of Invention's 'We're Only in It for… — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Shareholder value theory - the destructive idea that companies should be run solely for the benefit of shareholders - has led to… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political… — Carl Menger Copy Share Image
“Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question… — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Or tax'd invention for a fresh supply, 'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Charity is the filthiest invention of the human mind: first you steal what belongs to everyone; then you use the law and… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Alethea Black can drop you into a dream with a single sentence, then convince you it's real. Her characters' best hopes and… — Ralph Lombreglia Copy Share Image
“They preferred the invention because this invention expressed and corroborated their hates and fears so perfectly. It is just as well to… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works.… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
I guess they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by… — Mike Scheidt Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
A tinkerer,” snapped Pasiphaë. “Even worse. I knew Daedalus. His inventions brought me nothing but trouble.” Leo blinked. “Daedalus…like, the Daedalus? Well,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
My fear delivered one of the great lessons of my life: That someone without fear can’t push himself. He can’t get better.… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
It's no use practicing too much. First you have to find out how to do it best. You have to be able… — Nathan Milstein Copy Share Image
The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened… — Adrienne Mayor Copy Share Image
Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
It was not according to the Divine purpose that Jesus was slain at the Passover, but it was according to a human… — John Remsburg Copy Share Image
The world is as large as the range of one's interests. A narrow-minded man has a narrow outlook. The walls of his… — Joseph Jastrow Copy Share Image
“Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but it is the mother of any number of other things as well: sacrifice… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating… — George Washington Copy Share Image
