Top 1200 Great Inventions Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not merely learning, but learning to learn, not velocity, but acceleration. Learning to learn is one of the great inventions of living things. It is tremendously important. It makes evolution, biological as well as social, go faster. And it involves the development of the individual.

Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.

Truly new inventions take time to play out.

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

When I did inventions, I always thought only of the invention itself, but the kids would ask for marketing materials.

A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with a book, pleasurable, sometimes fruitful, potentially world-changing, simple; and in a library...witho ut cost to the reader.

All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

Most inventions are based on some prior history.

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions.

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.

Some of my inventions didn't take off. I invented a url lengthener.

The greater opportunity enabled me to make important discoveries and inventions.

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there is a critical and urgent need.

Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.

To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.

But what has America to boast? What are the graces or the virtues which distinguish its inhabitants? What are their triumphs in war, or their inventions in peace?

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

Not only do you need great lyrics, a great message, a great story, great vocals, great chords... you also need great instrumentation, great editing, great sonics, great mixing, and great mastering. It all comes together to make something truly great, and I think each element combines together to create a powerful impact on the consumer.

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.