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Invention is the mother of necessities.

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

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

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.

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

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

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

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 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make it the most important invention of the 20th century.

I've heard some designers talk about the design process being centred on invention, starting with a blank slate. I admire that and occasionally I'm capable of that, but I have to admit that I really have trouble working with completely open briefs.

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry

Money is an invention of the marketplace of exchange, brought into being by traders who discovered that a reliable medium could facilitate trades that were more difficult or even impossible by barter alone.

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

Necessity, mother of invention.

Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.