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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.
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?
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.
It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.
The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.
We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison!
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
When I did inventions, I always thought only of the invention itself, but the kids would ask for marketing materials.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.
I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.
We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.
I know it is one of the most important instruments and inventions, the electric guitar, to me, since television or movies or anything like that.
In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.
Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.
Everything that can be associated to ideas, inventions, copyrights, and patents is part of the IP world - at least, that's my definition. That all starts with people. Education is key.
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.
great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
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.
For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there is a critical and urgent need.
Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.
If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.
Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century.
The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.
I'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions go, it's up there with electricity and cars.
I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.
And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.
Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
By 17, I had a whole band that would go in and play. It was called Spontaneous Inventions, after a Bobby McFerrin album.
The greatest inventions are those inquiries which tend to increase the power of man over matter.
I loved playing with the mix of fantastical inventions and real ones. I hope kids will start logbooks to record their own creations.
Aren't we all dreamers? It's only because man dreamt of flying that we are travelling in planes. Behind all inventions, we see the dreams of people.
America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice
To change true rules for odd inventions.
It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.
Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions.
Schools often box kids into predefined categories. But we don't know what amazing ideas, inventions, cures, and contributions all these youths really have.
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.
