Invention Quotes

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it. James Gunn
You Invent Invention Before Rule Imagine
Doubt is the father of invention. Ambrose Bierce
Father Invention Doubt
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. Leonardo da Vinci
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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs
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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. J. K. Rowling
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Necessity... the mother of invention. Plato
Mother Invention Necessity
From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. Ernest Hemingway
You Invention Enough Those Alive All Things Immortality Give Something Through True New Know Well Make Well Enough Truer Exist Than New Thing Representation Anything Happened Cannot Your Whole Thing Things
As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. Benjamin Franklin
Great Opportunity Invention Enjoy Others Ours Inventions Glad Advantages Generously Freely Any Should Serve
Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil. Herbert Hoover
Good Democracy Good And Evil Opportunity Evil Invention Living Every Static Both Idea New Force New Idea Offers
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. Orson Welles
Editing Cinema Invention Eloquence Critics Directing Editing Room Achieved Room Notion Whole Film
Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything. Henry Petroski
Website Creative Invention Design Everything Magazine Whether Really Producing Bridge Designed Designs
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. Theophile Gautier
Art Words Care Invention Beauty Detail Execution Perpetual Choice Exquisite
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. Ambrose Bierce
Technology Invention Devil Distance Telephone Some Disagreeable Advantages Making His Person Which Keep
Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality. Hillary Clinton
Gay Reality Invention Western Human Being
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. Demetri Martin
Great Technology Reminisce Digital Invention Instantly Because Camera Us
The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. Ha-Joon Chang
History Events Invention Important Press Most Printing Printing Press Human The Most Important Human History
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.' James Naismith
Invention Drop Accident Meet Those Would Developed Simply Boy Handkerchief Play Need Basketball
I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world. Kenneth Branagh
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth. Oscar Wilde
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. Samuel Richardson
Integrity Mother Invention Calamity Well Test May Necessity
Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form. Steve Jobs
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Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. Tom Clancy
Hope Man Invention Changed Both Idea Cannot Which Creature Things
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. William Shakespeare
Invention Fire Would Heaven Ascend Brightest Muse
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. Emil Cioran
Silence Conversation Invention Pay Back Must Reveals How Dearly Essentials Middle Us Sudden Suddenly Brings Speech
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. Ernest Hemingway
Great Obligation Events Invention Assume Presumption Rather Write Writer Altering His Truly Than Which Them
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. Henry Miller
Life Liar Invention Though Fabric Admittedly Outrageous Absolutely Sincere Most Very Truthful Fiction Even
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