Quotes about Invention
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
For my grandmother's generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microwave, and for me, it's the iPhone. And that's enabled us to do so many different things more efficiently at home.
It was amazing feeling to be able to be involved in invention, but not just invention - the creating of a marketplace that had real value to add.
When I go to Fire Island, it's always sort of the same thing. Everyone is coexisting, and isn't that nice? But also, the risk of people co-opting what is a queer invention is okay, as long as it's not for capital.
The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works. You have to iterate quickly, and you should be prepared to fail. Because things often don't go as planned.
This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.
I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.
We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
A guy who needs to prove himself is exactly who you don't want in charge of creating the most destructive invention human kind has ever made.
I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.
Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?
Invention requires two things: One, the ability to try a lot of experiments, and two, not having to live with the collateral damage of failed experiments.
After the wheel, the PlayStation is the best invention of all time.
Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor's dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
I had my first band. it was kind of a progressive metal band kind of thing. I just started writing songs that required more and more challenging vocals, and I just did them. Necessity is the mother of invention, right? So I just sort of did what I had to do to make the songs sound the way I wanted them to.
I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.
I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.
Doubt is the father of invention.
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.
I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
