The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence… — Sam Hughes Copy Share Image
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is… — Richard Blackmore Copy Share Image
This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography. — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
To write? Because all this is going to vanish. The only thing left will be the prose and poems, the books, what… — James Salter Copy Share Image
One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Best of all, persons can sometimes be app-transcendent: making dramatic progress or discoveries, without any dependence on any app. In this context,… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
I'm an invention of the Internet. I'm like, the Internet went away for a few years and designed what the perfect online… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album. — Brian McKnight Copy Share Image
The invention of printing radically changed ways of thinking ¾ not just how things are communicated, but what can be thought — Derrick de Kerckhove Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the… — Dick Rutan Copy Share Image
“If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness,… — John R. Dallas Jr Copy Share Image
If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe.… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions. — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Copy Share Image
The popcorn button on the microwave is a miraculous invention. More miraculous than even the microwave itself. — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times… — William John Locke Copy Share Image
The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things,… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition. — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
“If the successor does better than the ancestor world remembers the successor, like the maker of a car, is still remembered but… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse -… — Christien Meindertsma Copy Share Image
Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with… — Banesh Hoffmann Copy Share Image
[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists. — KRS-One Copy Share Image
[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a… — Reginald Fessenden Copy Share Image
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