Best 375 quotes in «invention quotes» category

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.

I could never have predicted the invention of streaming, the rerelease of the show Gilmore Girls on Netflix, and that people still wanted to hear about it. I do love how we came back to it, but it was never up to me. It won't be up to me this time, either. If it ended there, I would be sad, but I also like what we did.

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.

I just realized that with the invention of the iPhone and others you now get to see the top of people's heads.

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity.

Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job.

Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative.

[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.

Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.

Invention is the mother of necessities.

Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.

Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

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?

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to his own invention is a very different matter. It is no more a monopoly for him to possess that, than to possess his own homestead .

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.