Invention Quotes - page 2

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. (Douglas Coupland)
Mothers are the necessity of invention. View quote
Bill Watterson
Sheer necessity,the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. View quote
Northrop Frye
On the telephone That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see But Microscopes are prudent In an emergency. View quote
Emily Dickinson
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers. View quote
Wendell Phillips
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. View quote
Sydney Smith
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. View quote
William Shakespeare
Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. (Leonardo da Vinci)
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. View quote
Douglas Engelbart
Necessity, mother of invention. View quote
William Wycherley
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. View quote
William Goldman
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention. View quote
Cornelia Otis Skinner
An invention is something that was "impossible” up to then-that's why governments grant patents. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun. View quote
Shigeru Miyamoto
Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone have been able to create or preserve it. It is the outcome of an objective relationship between the individual and the space he occupies, between the consumer and the resources at his disposal. View quote
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't underestimate the value of that. But they're not designed to take care of social needs. View quote
George Soros
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice. View quote
Norman Cousins
We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age. (El Lissitsky)
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply. View quote
Norman Borlaug
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad, the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality. View quote
Simone Weil
Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us. View quote
Gore Vidal
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned. View quote
Ignazio Silone