Invention Quotes
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Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool.
Samuel Morse -
Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
Albert Einstein
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Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.
William Shakespeare -
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
Albert Einstein -
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
Aristotle -
If you are going to do large-scale invention, you have to be willing to do three things: You must be willing to fail; you have to be willing to think long term; and you have to be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time.
Jeff Bezos -
Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.
Chuck Klosterman -
The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.
Nicholas Murray Butler
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Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.
Jeff Bezos -
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
William Shakespeare -
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such a complete alteration in the state of man kind?
J. C. Ryle -
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Tanith Lee -
I guess they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.
Viola Davis -
Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.
William Goldman
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone -
Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.
Andre Kertesz -
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
Barry Commoner -
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
Nikola Tesla -
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
Hans Kung -
But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
Yann Martel -
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
Patrick Macnee -
If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least into the open instead of carrying these same old burdens around with you.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience