Invention Quotes

Necessity... the mother of invention. (Plato)
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. View quote
Dave Barry
Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention. View quote
Margaret Mead
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 that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. View quote
J. K. Rowling
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble. View quote
Agatha Christie
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. View quote
Octavio Paz
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. View quote
Tom Clancy
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself...Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel. View quote
George Gershwin
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. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. (William Congreve)
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The good conscience is an invention of the devil. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Necessity, the mother of invention. View quote
George Farquhar
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists. View quote
Mikhail Kalashnikov
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world. View quote
Margaret Mead
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. View quote
Emil Cioran
Invention is the mother of all necessities. (Marshall McLuhan)
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory: nothing can come of nothing. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
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. View quote
Steve Jobs
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. View quote
Edward Hopper
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. View quote
Helen Frankenthaler