“Time was the invention of men who would confine the ocean and bottle the wind” — Kassandra Sims Copy Share Image
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel. — Robert Morley Copy Share Image
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
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games. — Carl Jung 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
For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and… — Edwin Land 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
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
“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
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold,… — Thomas Sprat 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
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
