The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. Dave Barry American Journalist More Dave Barry Quotes 5
Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns. Mitch Ratcliffe More Mitch Ratcliffe Quotes 1
That level of invention takes place in places where blacks were not hired [or enrolled]. They could not actually be ... part of a team of inventors until well after integration. Portia James More Portia James Quotes 1
Art imitates Nature, and necessity is the mother of invention. Richard Franck More Richard Franck Quotes 0
What I love about Paul's work is the combination of the endless invention with a strong dramatic imagination. Robert Gottlieb More Robert Gottlieb Quotes 0
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, "Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.". Robert Anton Wilson American Author More Robert Anton Wilson Quotes 0
An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one? Rutherford B. Hayes American Statesman More Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes 0
I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope. Sextus Julius Frontinus More Sextus Julius Frontinus Quotes 0
Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. The Princess Bride More The Princess Bride Quotes 0
A lot of that innovation, talent and invention is now pushed to other countries. Tod Loofbourrow More Tod Loofbourrow Quotes 0
Forced prostitution isn't the invention of some feminist. It's a real, big international problem and an extreme violation of human rights. Ulrike Helwerth More Ulrike Helwerth Quotes 0
Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living. Vanna Bonta More Vanna Bonta Quotes 0
We don't take money for the service. We're not a full-service invention submission company. We're just offering a forum for inventors, who are pretty far along in the invention process, a place to show their wares directly to a company that has a proven track record of successfully taking products to market. Webster Thompson More Webster Thompson Quotes 0
[But he doesn't like her proclamation, also made in the documentary about her 2004 Re-Invention tour, that] most priests are gay. ... We're glad to see she is no longer with us. Jews will have to make up their own mind about whether they're going to welcome her. Lots of them don't want to. William Donohue More William Donohue Quotes 0
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple. Willy Wonka More Willy Wonka Quotes 0
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been. Lascelles Abercrombie British Poet More Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes 0
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. John Adams American President More John Adams Quotes 0
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. Thomas A. Edison American Inventor More Thomas A. Edison Quotes 0
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. Theophile Gautier French Poet More Theophile Gautier Quotes 0
So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it. Chris Hadfield Canadian Astronaut More Chris Hadfield Quotes 0