The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
It's clear that there has to be some play between the vitality of invention in economic life and some regulation of it,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain;… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery,… — Max Ernst Copy Share Image
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The public is being spoiled by good technical quality photographs in magazines, on television, in the movies, and they have become bored.… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness,… — John R. Dallas Jr Copy Share Image
The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden'… — Larry Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: “In many cases… — James Burke Copy Share Image
Commonplace people have an answer for everything and nothing ever surprises them. They try to look as though they knew what you… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted. — John Philpot Curran Copy Share Image
