Inventions Quotes

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing.

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.

Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.