Bits and pieces Quote by Warren Berger

An invention or new combination can be successful only if all if the elements necessary for the recombination are present in the culture.

— Peter Farb

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into…

— Mark Twain

The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Invention breeds invention.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.”

— Ryan Lilly

We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.

— Hal Hartley

“Any creative intelligence, of sufficient complexity to design anything, comes into existence only as the end product of an extended process of gradual evolution.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Many creative minds, just like many light bulbs, lit up simultaneously, could lead to brainstorming and breakthrough innovation.”

— Pearl Zhu

“One of the largest problems in getting a new design accepted by an established manufacturer is not just the ‘not invented here’ syndrome, but…

— Paul M. Barrett

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

— Theodore Zeldin

“Then you understand the wide range of the totally new and unexpected creations they can sometimes come up with. Most people’s minds travel along…

— Terry Goodkind