Invention Quotes

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

Life, Change, Best

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
William Shakespeare

Fire, Heaven, Muse

Necessity... the mother of invention.
Plato

Mother, Necessity

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, Rather, Write

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci

Nature, Beautiful, Simple

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

Success, Work, Money

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.
Hillary Clinton

Gay, Human, Reality

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Ambrose Bierce

Person, Keep, Making

Doubt is the father of invention.
Ambrose Bierce

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, Though

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

Power, Human, Whose

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Dave Barry

History, Waiting, Important

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly

Marriage, Wonderful, Again

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams

Country, Office, Contrived

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
Demetri Martin

Great, Camera, Digital

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.
Lefty Gomez

Tired, Bowl, Goldfish

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie

Mother, Opinion, Laziness

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

Silence, Speech, Pay

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Political, Rich, American

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
John Berger

Time, Strange, Light

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

Essential, Replace, Skillful

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Alfred Hitchcock

Change, House, Television

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Jonathan Swift

Age, Great, Youth

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
Jonathan Swift

Age, Youth, Talent

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

Black, Brain, Study

Mothers are the necessity of invention.
Bill Watterson

Mothers, Necessity

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
Doug Coupland

Forget, Long, Lives

Getting caught is the mother of invention.
Robert Byrne

Mother, Getting, Caught

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
Walter Scott

Life, Eyes, Between

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

Everyone, Actually, Quite

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