Best 375 quotes in «invention quotes» category

Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.

Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

Ever since the invention of the camera, people have been trying to create 3D, because we see things in 3D, and everyone's aware that the camera doesn't.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

Every invention eventually becomes obsolete.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.

For without invention, no one was ever a great man in his own trade.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

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

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

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Invention is the mother of necessities.

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 . . .

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