Quotes of Invention - somelinesforyou

“ I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. ”

- Agatha Christie

“ The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ”

- Alan Kay

“ An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. ”

- Charles F. Kettering

“ We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Getting caught is the mother of invention. ”

- Robert Byrne

“ To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. ”

- Thomas A. Edison

“ Invention is the mother of necessity. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ”

- Simone Weil

“ The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly. ”

- Daniel Webster

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

- Andre Maurois

“ I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. ”

- Agatha Christie

“ Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. ”

- Dave Barry

“ Getting caught is the mother of invention. ”

- Robert Byrne

“ We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Invention is the mother of necessity. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. ”

- Thomas Alva Edison

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

- Gustave Flaubert

“ Doubt is the father of invention. ”

- Galileo Galilei

“ Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. ”

- Jonathan Swift

“ Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing. ”

- Sir Joshua Reynolds

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

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. ”

- Henry George

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

- Lord Byron

“ Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear. ”

- Bertolt Brecht

“ A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution. ”

- Sir Walter Raleigh

“ You're going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that's exactly what we should all do. ”

- Michael Bloomberg

“ Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ Do not debate! is one of my inventions. ”

- Deng Xiaoping
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