Invention Quotes
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"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
"I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner."
"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence."
"I just invented a hug machine. It’s solar powered so you can use it when you feel depressed, like on a cloudy day. Shit."
"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."
"I just invented a device that eliminates vice. It looks like a bottle of booze, only it’s empty, because I just drank it."
"Combine a fog machine and a cotton candy maker to create delicious mystery. This is the heart of romance."
"I have a doctorate degree from the School of Hard Knocks. I studied door-to-door salesmanship. This was before the doorbell was invented."
"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but who is the father? Don’t look at me! I wore a condom."
"Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with."
"Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to see you.[First intelligible words spoken over the telephone]"
"life is a continous journey of transformation"
"Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acquirement of knowledge of the previously unknown properties of a material suggests its trial for some new use. These facts strongly indicate the value of knowledge of properties of materials and indicate a way for research."
"I think I must have invented you on one of those days I was really bored."
Aleksandra Ninkovic, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
"There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combinationthey produce more hues than can ever been seen.There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations ofthem yield more flavours than can ever be tasted."
"Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate."
"Sometimes, the things They say, the laws They make, the way the world spins doesn't make any sense at all...Which is exactly why you have to ask "Why?" and keep on asking until you get the TRUTH..."
"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."
"If where we are now and whatever we are going through does not motivate us to leave this world better than the way we met it, we are in this world for wrong reasons."
"An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor."
"I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?"
"Wonder is the starter kit for innovation"
"Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them."
"To own something and not be aware of it could not only be annoying, but fatal too. That is why most people had all the time but did nothing with it. They died leaving behind no invention or product that they could be remembered for."
"Getting fired from work gives you the zeal to make your own inventions"
"Poverty is the mother of invention"
"Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to se"
"But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the 'anticipation of Nature,' that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with."
Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
"The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA."
"In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone."
"She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself."
"Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions."
"Poverty is the origin of invention"
"The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings."
"There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive."
"Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth."
"Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can’t see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can’t feel."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent."
"Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure."
"Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing."
"It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable."
"When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists."
"If e-book readers were invented before print books, (petty things such as) the smell of ink would have been some people’s only reason for not abandoning e-books."
"... He who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new... partly from the incredulity of mankind, who will never admit the merit of anything new, until they have seen it proved by the event."
"It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best."
"Ideas are the seeds of invention and actions are the fertilizers."
"We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity."
"The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create."
"You were created, fashioned and designed in a special form to leave in the world something that did not exist before you were born!"
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