What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details. — Richard Gurley Drew Copy Share Image
Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. — Joseph Conrad 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
The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts… — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Copy Share Image
The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world. — Adam Hart-Davis 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
“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 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
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
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
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
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate… — Nikola Tesla 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
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
Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Some people think it's psuedo-science, but it's called morphic resonance. It's when someone thinks of an idea, it makes it easier for… — Rich Fulcher Copy Share Image
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