Annoying Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

You know, one of the classics when somebody invents something, you go why the hell didn't I think of that.

— Anthony Head

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

— Voltaire

That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it.

— Rich Fulcher

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

— Minna Antrim

I think the most beautiful inventions are the ones you don't think of.

— Diane Arbus

“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

If it wasn't for my primary school teacher reminding me to be observant, I may not have had the inspiration to think of my…

— Zhou Qunfei

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself. Once…

— Kevin Kelly

“Our greatest invention in the past 200 years was not a particular gadget or tool but the invention of the scientific process itself.”

— Kevin Kelly

I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise.

— Jason Newsted

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

— Judith Schaechter

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