Invention Quotes
For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.
The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.
Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.
I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-Dumont
The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.
In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.
There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.
The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.
A brilliant idea doesn't guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness to make mistakes.
Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.
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.
Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity.
The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top
Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions
Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event.