It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
John Stuart Mill

Life is composed of different inventions.
Mikhail Kalashnikov

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
Giorgio Vasari

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.
Ernst Mayr

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
Robert Shea

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
James Dyson

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
Kenneth Clark

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
Bertrand Russell

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Lawrence Durrell

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.
Lynn Johnston

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.
Emil Nolde

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
Alva Myrdal

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.
John Moody

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
Samuel Smiles

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.
Ethel Merman

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Lord Byron

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Claude M. Bristol

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.
Dean Kamen