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Quotes About Invention

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!
~ John Gresham Machen
It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.
~ Michael Servetus
If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
~ John Banville
We should have more invention.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
The concept of war crimes is an American invention.
~ George Wald
I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.
~ Bill Irwin
The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.
~ Jane Haddam
But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
~ Karlheinz Stockhausen
What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.
~ Marc Davis
I'm an invention of the Internet. I'm like, the Internet went away for a few years and designed what the perfect online personality would look like and came back with me.
~ Milo Yiannopoulos
The hotel industry is a very modern invention - it only really started to become branded in the 1950s.
~ Joe Gebbia
Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the child of far-flung parents who may never meet.
~ Vaclav Smil
For us, for me as national coach, the Nations League is a good invention.
~ Joachim Low
In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
I grew up in a weird environment. My mother's head of the home video division, basically. She played a big role in the invention of DVD - she won an Emmy for it. Or rather, she's part of a group that won an Emmy for it.
~ Tom King
The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade.
~ Kerry James Marshall
I think the Internet is the greatest invention since women.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
A guy who needs to prove himself is exactly who you don't want in charge of creating the most destructive invention human kind has ever made.
~ Ashley Zukerman
The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.
~ Keith Olbermann
A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'
~ Eric Schmidt
Google is arguably one of the greatest inventions. The search engine is one of the greatest inventions in human history.
~ Franklin Foer
In life, there are really complex, difficult jobs, and some are more complicated and difficult than others. But when you look around at inventions, or records that have been broken, you have to tell yourself that anything is possible.
~ Gareth Southgate
I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or anything like that.
~ John 5