Improved Quote by 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

“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

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth…

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was…

— Dean Kamen

We should have more invention.

— Nathan Myhrvold

People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way…

— Joseph Sobran

For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of…

— Steve Case

We will pay a big price for an invention that will help us save time we don't know what to do with.

— Vikrant Parsai

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means…

— John Naisbitt

I'm sure that in the fullness of time we'll learn that one or more of these seemingly promising technologies were dead ends. And that's…

— Jay Inslee

A lot of great inventions are just little improvements on past ideas.

— Ken Hakuta