Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees. — Erno Rubik Copy Share Image
...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions. — Rolf Dobelli Copy Share Image
Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for… — Ed Askew Copy Share Image
It is my contention that no other invention of man has brought greater chaos to humanity than the practice of religion. — Paul Winchell Copy Share Image
But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The dishwasher is the best invention in the world, I didn't grow up with one so it's my prize possession in the… — Laura Whitmore Copy Share Image
No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can… — Thomas Rowe Price, Jr Copy Share Image
“We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.” — Ryan Lilly 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
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
The function of entrepreneurs is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Old companies that had nothing to do with software in the past all have software development activities to unlock the invention that's… — Peter Levine Copy Share Image
Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' and The Mothers of Invention's 'We're Only in It for… — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
What is scurrilously called ragtime is an invention that is here to stay. That is now conceded by all classes of musicians...… — Scott Joplin Copy Share Image
In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish… — William Henry Preece Copy Share Image
Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
