Ancestor Quote by Henri Poincare

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

— Henri Poincare

The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.

— Mark Kurlansky

American invents everything, but the trouble is we get tired of it the minute the new is wore off.

— Will Rogers

It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new…

— Ann Brashares

We've invented most of the stuff that we need and now we're just messing about

— Karl Pilkington

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

Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them.

— Mark Goulston

It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of…

— Vaclav Havel

To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step…

— Bruce Mau

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable…

— Brian Eno

It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.

— Steve Ballmer

We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least harmless, for…

— Dalai Lama