Invention Quotes - Page 13

• Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Lying, Father, Medicine

  Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1903). “New Letters and Memorials”

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• For people who make inventions, whether they make scientific inventions or artistic inventions, they're driven by pretty much the same thing. It's some mistrust from somebody saying it couldn't be a certain way, and overthrowing that. But that can happen at any point in history, at any time you come along. It doesn't get better or worse because you're born in this era or that era - I think it's more individualistic. It comes from within, you know, it's an internal thing.

  Paula Scher

  Thinking, People, Get Better

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• I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Great Inventions

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it.

  Rich Fulcher

  Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Some people think it's psuedo-science, but it's called morphic resonance. It's when someone thinks of an idea, it makes it easier for someone else to think of the idea. That's why you should do crossword puzzles later in the day, because other people have thought about the answers. That's why you hear about people coming up with inventions almost at the same time, because someone else is thinking about it. That's why whenever I have a really good idea, I'm always worried about theft.

  Rich Fulcher

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison!

  will.i.am

  Guy, Musical, Forget

  Source: thesource.com

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• It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also helps spread misinformation.

  will.i.am

  Ironic, Gathering, Information

  Source: thesource.com

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• The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity.

  Bill Gates

  Energy, Way, Next

  Source: thesource.com

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• I can only speak for myself but for me imagination and invention cannot generate something more important, more beautiful and more terrifying than the common object, amplified by the attention that we give it. An object alone, in front of me who is alone, exactly in front of me just as I would like to have in front of me someone who really interests me, in a good light to better observe it.

  Domenico Gnoli

  Beautiful, Light, Giving

  Source: observer.com

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• I've heard some designers talk about the design process being centred on invention, starting with a blank slate. I admire that and occasionally I'm capable of that, but I have to admit that I really have trouble working with completely open briefs.

  Michael Bierut

  Design Process, Trouble, Designer

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation.

  Jerry Garcia

  Taken, Years, Sound

  Source: medium.com

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• The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special skills and are not apt to.

  Robert Hass

  Skills, Political, Special

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's clear that there has to be some play between the vitality of invention in economic life and some regulation of it, and in some ways the great ideological wars of the 20th century that cost so many lives had to do with whether to have managed economies directed by government or economies directed by the free movement of capital, which is only partially subject to government regulation.

  Robert Hass

  War, Government, Play

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Our consumer-oriented economy wouldn't survive without economic growth. The whole mechanism depends on invention and insinuation of novelties, arousing new wants, seduction and temptation. This is the problem we face - much more than recapitalizing the banks. The question is: Is that kind of economy sustainable?

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Temptation, Growth, Faces

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• Shareholder value theory - the destructive idea that companies should be run solely for the benefit of shareholders - has led to financialized businesses that do not invest in the areas that will lead to future growth or the invention of useful new products.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Running, Ideas, Growth

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Like in comedy, you know the names of the people who steal things that others work really hard on. It really sucks. And, in magic, it's not just the hard work of getting the words and attitude and point of view right; you're taking an actual invention, making something over three or four years, and somebody can just take it.

  David Copperfield

  Attitude, Hard Work, Views

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have again a strange gap. We have the big scientific discoveries around the second, third century BC. Then we have an invention of the so-called Arab system, the positional system of counting with zero dated to the eighth or ninth century.

  Garry Kasparov

  Zero, Discovery, Gaps

  Interview With Timothy Taylor, timothytaylor.ca. 2001.

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• I'm not trying to give any definite answer. What I'm trying to prove is that we have enough gaps, enough discrepancies, enough simple falsifications to conclude that probably this history was an invention of a later time.

  Garry Kasparov

  Simple, Giving, Trying

  Interview With Timothy Taylor, timothytaylor.ca. 2001.

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• [Nikola Tesla] would do it through lucid dreaming. He would, in a sense, dream up the engine, forget about it, come back, and then discover where it was wearing. You know, where the parts were wearing out. Now, that's inner visualization and a half! And that was the secret of why he did so many inventions.

  Paul Laffoley

  Dream, Secret, Half

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At the same time, money is capable of extraordinary corruption in every kind of relationship.

  Costa-Gavras

  Important, Saws, Becoming

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• In one way, we're on an upward swing, but at the same time there's still a lot of evil that goes on in the world. I think it's definitely heading in a better direction, but it seems to take so long for all the people with the power, who control the negative side of life and all the bad inventions they have like guns and bombs and hate. But there has to be a balance. We've got to all try harder to manifest more love in order to counteract all that.

  George Harrison

  Hate, Gun, Thinking

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• It is possible that, in fact, Trump's call for "America First" (despite evoking unpleasant recollections that such a phrase was the invention of those in the 1930s harboring fascist sympathies) and a positive relationship with Russia, might lead [to] a more relaxed global setting.

  Richard A. Falk

  Russia, America, Phrases

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

  Steve Winwood

  Mother, Zappa, Music Is

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• The invention of Instagram and Twitter has made, like, a big difference. Because you can just talk to anybody. And find anybody, it feels like.

  Nicolas Cowan

  Differences, Instagram, Made

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• The old idea that some genius pulls all of this stuff out of the air is ridiculous. As Ridley pointed out, the only way Edison could invent the lightbulb is because all the elements had been developed before. That's obvious it wasn't just his genius - 20 others developed it at the same time. And that's true for almost every invention and discovery.

  Charles Koch

  Air, Discovery, Ideas

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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