To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself…Making music is actually little else… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions… — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I'm skeptical that the novel will be "reinvented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.” — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and… — Booth Tarkington Copy Share Image
Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. — Henry George 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
For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it… — Shuji Nakamura Copy Share Image
