Quotes About Invention

Want, the mistress of invention.

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of mankind.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

Medieval Technology? The Middle Ages invented, among other things, the crank, the horse collar, eyeglasses, the flying buttress, the stirrup, the windmill, the wheelbarrow, printing, firearms, paper, the canal lock, the compass, the rudder, the mechanical clock, the spinning wheel, and the treadle.

You are the product of your own brainstorm.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

Marconi invented radio, but Ted Husing knew what to do with it.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.

Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.

What is Imagination but mental mischief of a kind, and why can't the youngster protectively occupy himself with invention of that sort before maturity works him over?

The history of science and technology has traditionally privileged innovation over the transmission, transformation, and transfer of knowledge. But it was often the less spectacular knowledge that led to the most celebrated discoveries and inventions.

what a school was: a building designed to aid in gaining new knowledge, communicating it to others, and applying it in invention. This was a revelation. His creators needed

Edison, Oedipus, platypus. Whatever.

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.   —William Shakespeare

Bet the first guy who made fire figured he was a god, and the other cavemen bowed down to him." "Or bashed him in the head with a rock and stole his burning stick." She