Quotes About Invention

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Rising!

The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.

You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new.

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.

A guy who makes a new chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.

I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.

The man who invented slow-motion movies got his idea while watching a Scotsman reach for a check in a restaurant.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Necessity is literally the mother of invention.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.

The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.