Invention Quotes
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As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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Was there ever a better invention in the cookie world than the Oreo?
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None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.
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A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.
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Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.
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At this young age I am already sold on the idea of the dog. One of God's absolutely greatest inventions and one that needs no more tinkering. The dog is the perfect beast, companion, friend, shoulder to lean on, and scapegoat when too many cookies are missing. And a dog won't hold that against you, either. I am at peace sitting in silence with a dog.
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Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.
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Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
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You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.
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It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.
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Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both.
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One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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Despite the invention of time machines, we keep being linear.
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Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.
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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
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Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.
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The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
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We realized we don't have an invention, that's why we gave it away.
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Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.
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Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men ... to look askance at the patenting of inventions, as if it were a rather selfish and ungracious act, essentially unworthy. The answer is very simple. Publish an invention freely, and it will almost surely die from lack of interest in its development. It will not be developed and the world will not be benefited. Patent it, and if valuable, it will be taken up and developed into a business.
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Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
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It was the perfect invention. It was simple to implement the technology, but it brought an old idea (auctions) into a new domain (the Internet).
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Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
