What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you. [ First intelligible words spoken over the telephone ]” — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention. — Del Close Copy Share Image
“Every wheel wish to be the wheel of a car, and not of just another vehicle.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore. — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention. — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
I look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. What I'm not looking forward to is the long wait in the dark… — Marc Beland Copy Share Image
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves… — Horace Copy Share Image
“If you were born alone to die alone - socializing is not a must - when you haven't built a society within… — Kangoma Kindembo Copy Share Image
“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The old idea that some genius pulls all of this stuff out of the air is ridiculous. As Ridley pointed out, the… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, Tobacco, balloons, and steam, Are little events that have come to pass Since the days of the old… — Henry Sambrooke Leigh Copy Share Image
An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the… — Stephen Smale Copy Share Image
I think the history of western feminism is one that is fraught with racism, and I think it's important to acknowledge that… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine,… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I heard "romantic comedy about the invention of the vibrator in Victorian England," and I was like, "You have got to be… — Tanya Wexler Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as post-feminism. It's like saying post-democracy, excuse me, what does that mean? We're nowhere near equality, so the… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“We mustn't be afraid of inventing anything...Everething there is in us exists in nature. After all, we're part of nature. If it… — Francoise Gilot Copy Share Image
In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced… — Samuel Crompton Copy Share Image
I do not rush into constructive work. When I get an idea, I start right away to build it up in my… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: "What is going to happen to us now, with… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention. — Chris Lowe Copy Share Image
If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence. — John Banville Copy Share Image