The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to… — Joel A. Barker 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
You know the expression, 'Necessity is the mother of Invention'? It's gotten completely reversed. Now, it's 'Invention is the mother of Necessity.'… — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty space of… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to… — Joline Godfrey Copy Share Image
Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
“Here’s what I’d love to see: A vending machine that dispenses cats for petting on your lunch break. Instead of money, the… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention. — Del Close Copy Share Image
You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every… — Ayn Rand 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
We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word. — June Millington Copy Share Image
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That… — Helen Frankenthaler Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
“Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer.” — Mario Stinger Copy Share Image
Ah cher ami, how poor in invention men are! They are They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows; And others' feet still seemed but strangers… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
