Best 375 quotes in «invention quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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.

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

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

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

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 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 . . .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.