Accomplishment Quote by Eric Hoffer

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

— Henry David Thoreau

Our inventions won't be pretty toys, or show up in movies, which distract our attention from serious things, they are but improved but means…

— Henry Thoreau

“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed. In the absence of new developments, old ones may seem…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

— Carl Sandburg

Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys…

— Nolan Bushnell

Truly new inventions take time to play out.

— Ellen Ullman

A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the frontier of…

— Dick Rutan

We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.

— William McDonough

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Technology is anything invented after you were born.”

— Alan Kay

“Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson