Deviation Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Invention breeds invention.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

— Jeff Bezos

Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.

— Joseph Jastrow

In inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

— Aristotle

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

— Edwin Land

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

— Gary Hamel

Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into…

— Edwin Land

Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.

— William Blake

“Still, many of the advantages enjoyed by millions of people today emerged from designs and inventions produced by innovators inspired by nothing more than…

— Ted Koppel

We should have more invention.

— Nathan Myhrvold

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Models are the mothers of invention.”

— Leland Wilkinson