Government Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

For one thing, there are many "inventions" that are not patentable. The "inventor" of the supermarket, for example, conferred great benefits on his fellowmen…

— Milton Friedman

Every invention was borne out of impossible. So impossible does not exist in the world of development.

— Anonymous

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

— Peter Drucker

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

— William McDonough

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

— Edwin Land

Invention breeds invention.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Innovation is one of the most powerful forces in the world. It can make the impossible, possible. People used to say

— Jerel Evalobo

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's…

— Dean Kamen

Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.

— William Blake

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

— Dean Kamen

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

— Jason Newsted