Invention Quotes

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

Doubt is the father of invention.

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.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history-with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

We take this template ... and act as if it's God-given, ... We don't see that this was a social invention and we can re-invent it. We as a society need to create new templates for work life.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

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

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos.

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

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.