Negative thinking is as important as creative thinking... because if creative thinking invented the airplane, then negative thinking invented parachute! — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the 'low-hanging fruit'… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has… — Elias Hicks Copy Share Image
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful. — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
I would like to find the person who discovered sex and see what he's working on now. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man has invented and discovered so many amazing things in this world, But one thing no one has been able to do… — Reshma Kassam Copy Share Image
Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
“[...] there is one inexorable law of technology, and it is this: when revolutionary inventions become widely accessible, they cease to be… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money. If you're in physics, you create inventions,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Inventions cannot be judged on patent parameters, but patents have the ability to take inventions very far” — Kalyan C. Kankanala Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
Money is the most potent invention to fabricate reality and simultaneously the most devastating — Alexander Fennis Copy Share Image
“Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions — Ethel Merman Copy Share Image
“Thomas Edison was no an inventor but a very evil wealthy man with connections to the most wealthy Americans. He killed animals… — James Thomas Kesterson Jr Copy Share Image
“Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.” — William J Federer Copy Share Image
Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of… — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt my home all by myself. I… — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in… — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
“the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image