Invention Quotes
1021 quotes by 740 authors
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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
— Francis Bacon
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If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
— John Banville
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In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human…
— Bob Barr
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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
— Dave Barry
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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
— John Adams
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
— John Berger
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I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If…
— Jeff Bezos
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Doubt is the father of invention.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is…
— Danny Boyle
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To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be…
— Bill Bryson
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
— Lord Byron
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
— Thomas Carlyle
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
— Jimmy Carter
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The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.
— Lee Child
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself…
— Agatha Christie
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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.
— Hillary Clinton
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The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
— Jean Cocteau
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
— Susan B. Anthony
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