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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
I didn't fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.
The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.
What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
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.
In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.
We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.
There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.
Consumers are looking for those trusted brands to help with search and discovery and streaming content choices.
Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.
Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.
If I knew what the photograph was going to look like, I wouldn't bother taking it. It's the voyage of discovery that fascinates me.
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.
The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.
I've seen the invention of television and performed on television even before my family owned one.
There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.
I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.
Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
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 said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.
The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.
I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists.
In the Year 2000 the discovery of extraterrestrial life will create a revolution in science, art, and pornography.
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.
We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.
Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.
None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists.
I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than "The Metamorphosis".
Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.
Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.
Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.
Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
Radio... that wonderful invention by which I can reach millions of people... who fortunately can't reach me.
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.
