Blessed Quote by Charles Babbage

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

— Whitney M. Young

If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you…

— Jeff Bezos

Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Principles have a way of yielding to power.

— Bette Lord

To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically…

— Orhan Pamuk

Trying different ways of doing things is what brings invention.

— Terry Mark

“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.”

— Winston Churchill

If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling.

— Stephen Covey

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

— Benjamin Franklin

“As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his…

— Anonymous

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

— George Takei

“Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.”

— Thomas Paine