Amount Quote by Benoit Mandelbrot

Inventing is the resolution of technical contradictions.

— Genrich Altshuller

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Do not invent anything; simply discover it.”

— Richard Powers

“Every invention began as an imagination.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

— Judith Schaechter

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So,…

— Maya Angelou

I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

— Helen Garner

“If necessity is the mother of invention than imagination must be the egg. Nothing can be invented which has not first been dreamt.”

— Chrissy Byers

And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

— Aristotle

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

— Jeff Bezos

But man invents nothing God did not create first.

— Mitch Albom

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something…

— Paul Watzlawick