Innovation Quote by John Stuart Mill

Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a…

— John Stuart Mill

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.

— Karl Marx

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

— Jason Newsted

How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

“All human societies contain inventive people. It’s just that some environments provide more starting materials, and more favorable conditions for utilizing inventions, than do…

— Jared Diamond

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

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

— Voltaire

To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution…

— Theodore Kaczynski

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

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing…

— Henrik Ibsen

Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg