When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty. — Robert Fulton Copy Share Image
“Who was the first that forged the deadly blade? Of rugged steel his savage soul was made.” — Tibullus Copy Share Image
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention. — Joseph Jastrow Copy Share Image
If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
“From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity – and not the other way around.’ That was… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made… — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating… — George Washington Copy Share Image
People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The wealthiest place on the planet is the graveyard, because in the graveyard we will find inventions that we were never ever… — Les Brown 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
Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
The world is as large as the range of one's interests. A narrow-minded man has a narrow outlook. The walls of his… — Joseph Jastrow Copy Share Image
What I tend to do is to wake about five in the morning-this happens quite often-think about the invention, and then image… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons… — Winkie Pratney Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted,… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
