Quotes About Invention

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!

Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas

I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.

I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.

Good ideas are free - or at least they should be.

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.

If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.

Airplanes were invented for missionaries to complete the Great Commission.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Great companies are built on great products.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.