We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in… — Edmund Fuller Copy Share Image
My experience is that inventors come in all sizes, all nationalities, all ages. The only thing I'm sure of is that inventors… — Robert Dilts Copy Share Image
O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development. — Frontinus Copy Share Image
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I regret that after 30 years of writing columns in this market, including ten with this newspaper that I love very much,… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“ Paine suffered then, as now he suffers not so much because of what he wrote as from the misinterpretations of others...… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants… — Alexander Graham Bell Copy Share Image
We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised. — Judith Schaechter Copy Share Image
If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
