A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Carolyn Wells

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.
James Payn

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.
Dean Kamen

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.
Emile M. Cioran

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!
John Gresham Machen

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
Rudolf Arnheim

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.
Kit Bond

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

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
Tim O'Reilly

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
Karlheinz Stockhausen

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.
Nicolas Roeg

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Theophile Gautier

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Tanith Lee

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

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

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

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
J. M. Coetzee

But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
Karlheinz Stockhausen

But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.
Erno Rubik