Invent Quotes

693 Invent quotes by 543 unique authors

If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages. — Jamais Cascio
Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either,… — Seth Godin
To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as… — Robert Bresson
People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our… — George Orwell
And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases. — Plato
In the beginning, we create the enemy. Before the weapon comes the image. We think others to death and then invent the battle-axe or ballistic… — Sam Keen
It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and ensure the rigour… — Gottlob Frege
If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company. — Jeff Bezos
Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient... That is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent an… — Unknown Author
Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak… — Leo Baekeland
I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories. — Josef Koudelka
All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are… — George Orwell
Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the… — Isaac Asimov
Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. — Maya Angelou
There is no need to invent an ego that is separate from the divine if our basic human nature is trusted. If we trust ourselves,… — Wayne Dyer
Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and,… — Daniel Libeskind
I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas… — Sam Walton
The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning. — Brendan Gill
Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it? — Jude Morgan
If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But still, everything passes… — Brassai
You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them. — Bill Gates
Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who… — Diane Ackerman
Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure - nobody… — Philip Slater
I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on… — Frank Zappa

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