The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have… — Edwin Howard Armstrong Copy Share Image
Suits are malevolent magicians' sleeves for socialists, full of patrician loops and tricks, small, embroidered, cryptic messages of deference and privilege. They… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Money is a wonderful invention. It lets us save, it lets us specialize, right? I couldn't be a professor if there wasn't… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
The discovery I announce to the public is one of the small number which, by their principles, their results, and the beneficial… — Louis Daguerre 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
Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
They say there is no 'free lunch' in life. But there are free books! I still can't believe I can go to… — Dan Gutman Copy Share Image
If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's… — Tom Robbins 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
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and… — Ralph Linton Copy Share Image
The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, "It's… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; /… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I go to Fire Island, it's always sort of the same thing. Everyone is coexisting, and isn't that nice? But also,… — Bowen Yang Copy Share Image
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
In a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead buy or… — Henry Chesbrough Copy Share Image
Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies,… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the… — Jim Hunt Copy Share Image
Creativity is one of the most important brain functions in developing youth. It is the ultimate road to invention. I believe it… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
I really want to go into the future 500 years and be a quantum physicist. Not only would I get to see… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image