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
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
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
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history-with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. Mitch Ratcliffe More Mitch Ratcliffe Quotes 0
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. Phyllis Moen More Phyllis Moen Quotes 0
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. Samuel George Morton American Scientist More Samuel George Morton Quotes 0
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. Samuel Richardson English Novelist More Samuel Richardson Quotes 0
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. Henri Poincare French Mathematician More Henri Poincare Quotes 0
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. Nicolas Roeg English Director More Nicolas Roeg Quotes 0
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. J. K. Rowling English Author More J. K. Rowling Quotes 0
But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees. Erno Rubik Hungarian Inventor More Erno Rubik Quotes 0
It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity. Michael Servetus Spanish Scientist More Michael Servetus Quotes 0
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. Walter Scott Scottish Novelist More Walter Scott Quotes 0
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. Paul Watzlawick Austrian Psychologist More Paul Watzlawick Quotes 0
Mothers are the necessity of invention. Bill Watterson American Cartoonist More Bill Watterson Quotes 0
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly. Daniel Webster American Statesman More Daniel Webster Quotes 0
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley English Author More Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes 0
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. William Shakespeare English Dramatist More William Shakespeare Quotes 0
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. Carolyn Wells American Author More Carolyn Wells Quotes 0
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. Walter Jon Williams American Writer More Walter Jon Williams Quotes 0
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. Ignazio Silone Italian Author More Ignazio Silone Quotes 0
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention. Cornelia Otis Skinner American Actress More Cornelia Otis Skinner Quotes 0
Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead. P. J. Wolfson More P. J. Wolfson Quotes 0