Invention Quotes

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.

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.

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.

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.

But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.