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Quotes About Invention

I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own
~ Nikola Tesla
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
~ Audrey Hepburn
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
~ Edward de Bono
The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.
~ Paul Virilio
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it
~ Thomas A. Edison
I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn't like for a long time.
~ Miuccia Prada
Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
~ Denis Waitley
True creativity often starts where language ends.
~ Arthur Koestler
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
~ Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.
~ Carl Sandburg
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
~ Lily Tomlin
Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.
~ Daryl Morey
I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.
~ Russell Baker
Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses
~ Kamila Shamsie
At the heart of all of mankind's achievements is imagination.
~ R. L. Matthies
The best creates, the rest follows
~ Richard Lee JuiChe
Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself.
~ Katelyn S. Bolds
An idea is nothing more or less than a new combination of old elements (Quoted from Vilfredo Pareto)
~ James Webb Young
And that was the day she invented it, this particular glazed expression of hers. She had created it to please her father, but it had served her well in her life. When she wore it, most men thought she was listening to them, and most women knew that the conversation was over.
~ Jami Attenberg
Could it be that racism is a sort of historical invention, a Satanic hoax?
~ Jan Morris
I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.
~ Janelle Monae
What is clear is that genius, whether it is represented by a Thomas Edison or an Albert Einstein or an Alberto Ramirez, leaves the world a better place.
~ Janisse Ray