Invention Quotes

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

David Mamet

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The U.K. has been very progressive about on-demand, and the iPlayer has been a great invention. It has trained a generation of viewers to expect on-demand - unfortunately, it trains them to expect free!

Ted Sarandos

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Touring is the best invention of all time, so if I have to suffer a little bit of payback for having all this fun, then so be it.

James Blunt

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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Edward Hopper

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I'm a huge fan of online communities. I think that asynchronous internet-based communication forums such as Reddit and other discussion forums are one of the best things that could possibly have happened to collaborative invention. The Rift certainly would not exist without forums.

Palmer Luckey

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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

Nathan Myhrvold

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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

Barry Diller

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If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

John Banville

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The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

Spike Jonze

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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Mary Shelley

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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 of nothing.

Joshua Reynolds

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No Latina woman would be called 'Ms.' - that's an invention of middle-class Anglo women. Latina women are proud to be called 'Mrs.' That simply means that we have a family.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.

Peter Diamandis

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You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.

Richard Blackmore

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America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

Kit Bond

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Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

James Dyson

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Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

Germaine Greer

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You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

David Hockney

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I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

Terry Pratchett

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Necessity, the mother of invention.

George Farquhar

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I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

Yusuf Hamied

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To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.

Orhan Pamuk

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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

Lascelles Abercrombie

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The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

Barry Commoner

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