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Quotes About Invention

They invent a howling theatrical language through which it becomes possible to express the grief of the whole world, a language understood by no one but the two of them.
~ Unknown
In the forests man has always deteriorated; human evolution has made progress only in the open and in the higher latitudes. The cold and hunger of the open lands stimulate action, invention, and resourcefulness.
~ Unknown
In the forests man has always deteriorated; human evolution has made progress only in the open and in the higher latitudes. The cold and hunger of the open lands stimulate action, invention, and resourcefulness. While these Andonic tribes were developing the pioneers of the present human race amidst the hardships and privations of these rugged northern climes, their backward cousins were luxuriating in the southern tropical forests of the land of their early common origin.
~ Unknown
In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music -- all with love. In other words, create a magic world.
~ Valerie Solanas
Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
~ Vanna Bonta
Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.
~ Vanna Bonta
Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.
~ Vernor Vinge
From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity – and not the other way around.' That was easy for Sherkaner Underhill to say. He didn't have to engineer the science into reality.
~ Vernor Vinge
Necessity is the mother of invention. Danger is the father of preparation.
~ Unknown
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
~ Victor Borge
The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.
~ Wendell Phillips
Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.
~ Margaret Fuller
You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.
~ Larry Page
Happy 110th birthday to Frank Zamboni, who left us in 1988 but still resurfaces periodically.
~ Steve Rushin
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.
~ Alexander Graham Bell
It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.
~ Gene Roddenberry
We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.
~ Bill Gates
If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.
~ Mark McCormack
We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.
~ Arkady Volozh
The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!
~ Sam Hughes
The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
~ Linus Pauling
I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
~ Jack Kilby
Entrepreneurship is all about making life easier for humanity, while money becomes a bye-product.
~ Auliq-Ice