The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
“Love is an old invention but it is one that is always new. Make the most of it.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. — John Berger Copy Share Image
In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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
Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again… — George Will Copy Share Image
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty. — David Batstone Copy Share Image
I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every… — Bernard Arnault 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
“Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but it is the mother of any number of other things as well: sacrifice… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
This is the patent-age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions; Sir Humphrey… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works.… — Boyan Slat Copy Share Image
I guess they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by… — Mike Scheidt Copy Share Image
... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something against nature.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those persons who shall… — Alfred Bernhard Nobel Copy Share Image
[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups… — Margaret Mead 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
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe.… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make. — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand. — Townsend Harris Copy Share Image
The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere. — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. — James Naismith Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if you think that the styrofoam cooler is the greatest invention of all time. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
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