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Quotes About Invention

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.
~ Rodman Philbrick
Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.
~ Margaret Heffernan
We all have great ideas. No one ever says, "I've got this terrible idea."
~ Alexis Ohanian
Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.
~ James Dyson
A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.
~ John C. Maxwell
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom
~ Gustave Flaubert, November
Don't wait to think out of the box – create your own box.
~ Stephen Richards
Everyone or almost all eventually evade reality and we invent what we need.
~ Stephen Richards
Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.
~ Frederick Lenz
I never thought my cotton gin would change history.
~ Eli Whitney
Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.
~ Daymond John
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
~ Alan Lightman
Trial by jury must be preserved. It is the best system ever invented for a free people in the world's history.
~ John Henry Wigmore
The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.
~ Tom Kelley
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
~ Ann Douglas
Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.
~ Janis Ian
Let's invent a new tomorrow and then make it happen. Let's invent the city of tomorrow, the home of tomorrow, the transportation of tomorrow.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
On Michael Moore TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block... pretty funny.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Redemption is invented by the sinner.
~ Lawrence Hill
There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.
~ John Logie Baird
Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering.
~ Nikola Tesla
I hope to someday live in a world where there are lots more Silicon Valleys.
~ Marc Andreessen