Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos! — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
“While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity. — James Woods Copy Share Image
Experiences are everything. And businesses must create experiences that mean something. If necessity is the mother of invention, then vision is the… — Brian Solis Copy Share Image
Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“Your dreams can change the environment which was not conducive for it at first! However it is a good initiative for the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Bush explained his fundamental concept to me, that freedom is not an American invention, but rather a gift from God to all… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention. — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
“No one, it appears, took up his offer to commercialize his invention; like other inventions of his, it worked well for him,… — Morton N. Cohen Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. — Mose Allison Copy Share Image
Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect. — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Invention furnishes Art with all her materials, and without it, Judgement itself can at best but steal wisely .” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I chased every band around the world. Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention, you name it. I could just go on… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
Shoes are a great invention. They keep us from stepping on nails. Your feet stay clean and warm and dry. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people… The Japanese… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals? — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I think Shazam is one of the coolest inventions on the planet, and whether I was in a thrift store or in… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends. — Caryl Rivers Copy Share Image
Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected… — Samuel D. Warren Copy Share Image