It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution. — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise.… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry… — Michael Graves 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
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before… — George Wald Copy Share Image
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If the Health Impact Fund were to be instituted, a single company would be in charge of a medical product all the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented. — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
“In the sense, that is, that the author who created us alive no longer wished, or was no longer able, materially to… — Luigi Pirandello 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
