Invention Quotes

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

Jeff Bezos

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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

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As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Michel Foucault

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I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.

Dean Kamen

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Necessity... the mother of invention.

Plato

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An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

Tim O'Reilly

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A secret control slip is a wonderful invention. It sculpts and lifts the bum and smooths the hips.

Marie Helvin

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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

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

Henry George

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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

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I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.

Alex Chiu

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America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.

Nick Clooney

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Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Ivar Giaever

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Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Patrick Macnee

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We created NATO. It was a United States invention for the collective security of Europe. It has been a Russian desire since 1947 to break up NATO.

Malcolm Nance

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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Ignazio Silone

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We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.

Jimmy Carl Black

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The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.

Jean Piaget

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Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Robert Byrne

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It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

Michael Servetus

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In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Pierre Bayle

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It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.

Tim Finn

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In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.

Mario Vargas Llosa

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