Quotes About Invention

If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.

The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

Necessity is often the mother of balls

If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father.

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

The future never just happened. It was created.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.

If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.

When i want to hear new music, i make it

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Any good music must be an innovation.

I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play