Invention Quotes

Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance had anything to do with code. And it was only after the invention of the telegraph that we understood that our nerves carry messages, just like wires.

James Gleick

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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

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Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

Fridtjof Nansen

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If everything is God's will, then so is the invention of the vaccine, just like the seatbelt.

Els Borst

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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

William Congreve

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What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

Marc Davis

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A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Carolyn Wells

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Was there ever a better invention in the cookie world than the Oreo?

Rachel Hollis

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We should have more invention.

Nathan Myhrvold

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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

Dan Gilbert

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The hotel industry is a very modern invention - it only really started to become branded in the 1950s.

Joe Gebbia

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Doubt is the father of invention.

Ambrose Bierce

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Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Roger von Oech

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The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.

Michael Moore

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I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that.

Christien Meindertsma

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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

Pierre Bayle

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I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

Norman MacCaig

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As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

Mose Allison

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With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.

James Gleick

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Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution.

Henry Petroski

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Architects typically inherit programmes or sites. We maybe twist the programme a little bit, bring our own invention into it, and we feel perfectly happy when we walk away. It doesn't feel like quite enough.

Elizabeth Diller

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Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

Whitney M. Young

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The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

Lee Child

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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

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