What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it. — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“All things are inventions of holiness. Some more rascally than others. I” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
People talk about Madonna being the queen of reinvention, and while I applaud her, I don't know anyone who's reinvented themselves more… — Paula Abdul Copy Share Image
To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover... — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly~Anuj Somany — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
We owe a lot when it comes to women in terms of innovation, in terms of education, in terms of progression in… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful,… — Sister Parish Copy Share Image
All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The way you advance a technological society is to try things - to be controversial and contrarian in your thinking in order… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We created the spirituals. We created so much great music, jazz chief amongst our innovations, teaching us how to prize ourselves and… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The key thing is to invest in the future, and what that means is - when you're deploying technology or you're a… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of… — James Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The nature of a breakthrough is for you to stand on what you've gotten, what you've loved, what's been important to you,… — Werner Erhard Copy Share Image
If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“If from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement,… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
