Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future. — Philippe Kahn Copy Share Image
Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation. — George Takei Copy Share Image
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. — John Berger 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
Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The invention that most people know me for is the Super Soaker water gun. I knew the gun worked well, and I… — Lonnie Johnson 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
Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted… — James Rowland Angell Copy Share Image
Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value… — Auguste Lumiere Copy Share Image
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from… — Takafumi Horie Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records,… — David Gerrold 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
If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighted… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children,… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever.… — I. J. Good Copy Share Image
've always defined a truly alluring story as a journey we're not equipped to take ourselves with a person we're tempted but… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The ways of living have been rendered vastly easier by a multitude of inventions, by the increasing wealth of the country, by… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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