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
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've been really lucky as an inventor. I'm the happiest guy you're ever going to meet. And my dad died before he… — Woody Norris Copy Share Image
It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
You young people yourselves are capable of performing anything. Our inventors can invent in a high level. Our innovators can innovate in… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image
I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you… — Steve Wozniak 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
This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
“My Belle. I'm so proud of you. Look at what you created here." Belle blushed. "I didn't create it, Papa. It's Hugo's… — Random House Disney Copy Share Image
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention… — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Which was why, some six hours later, Alexia Maccon's daughter was born inside the head of an octomaton in the presence of… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
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“Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first,… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and… — Freeman Dyson 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
You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors… — Mark Zuckerberg 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
I contend that if it wasn't for Jimi, the gadgets we use for electric guitars now wouldn't have happened. He was an… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up… — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human… — Herbert J. Muller 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
I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
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