Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and… — George Soros Copy Share Image
His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.... — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have… — Alanna Ubach Copy Share Image
A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness -… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Gay people are born into, and belong to, every society in the world. They are all ages, all races, all faiths. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it… — Fridtjof Nansen Copy Share Image
Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
