Invention Quotes

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

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.

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

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

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.

If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.

Necessity... the mother of invention.

My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever.

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.

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

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.

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 under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs.

I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.