Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough. — Julie Newmar Copy Share Image
I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention. — Steve Lacy Copy Share Image
It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We will pay a big price for an invention that will help us save time we don't know what to do with. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
“We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can… — Thomas Rowe Price, Jr Copy Share Image
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The dishwasher is the best invention in the world, I didn't grow up with one so it's my prize possession in the… — Laura Whitmore Copy Share Image
But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
“Your dreams can change the environment which was not conducive for it at first! However it is a good initiative for the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention… — Karl Popper 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
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
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
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
…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was… — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe.… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human… — William Graham Sumner 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
Invention and entrepreneurship isn't about pure technology. Most people take whatever they see in front of them and relate it to something… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965. — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go. — Trevor Baylis Copy Share Image
“I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.~ — Anonymous Copy Share Image
