Invention Quotes - Page 6

• Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Weed, Flower, Innovation

  "Ethernet inventor on IoT, innovation, more: Bob Metcalfe Q&A". "RCR Wireless News" with Sean Kinney, www.rcrwireless.com. November 12, 2015.

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• In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left. However, he said, there is one last mystery. There is a large country on the Roof of the World, where strange things happen. There are monks who have the ability to separate mind from body, shamans and oracles who make government decisions, and a God-King who lives in a skyscraper-like palace in the Forbidden City of Llhasa.

  Heinrich Harrer

  Country, Kings, War

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• I have a serious question." "I will give a serious answer." "Can a god be killed?" The humor drained from Roman's face. "Well, that depends on if you're a pantheist or a Marxist." "What's the difference?" "The first believes that divinity is the universe. The two are synonymous and nonexistent without each other. The second believes in anthropocentrism, seeing man in the center of the universe, and god as just an invention of human conscience. Of course, if you follow Nietzsche, you can kill God just by thinking about him.

  Ilona Andrews

  Believe, Thinking, Men

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• I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a pity because that's what I am. I chose a life apart from the common flow, not only because the common flow makes me sick but because I question the logic of the flow, and not only that - I don't know if the flow exists! Why should I chain myself to the wheel when the wheel itself might be a construct, an invention, a common dream to enslave us?

  Steve Toltz

  Dream, Sick, Criminals

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• Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophy, Hydrogen Bomb, Ideas

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Trials, Anything Worth Doing, Results

  "A Photographic Talk with Edison". Interview with Theodore Dreiser, Success Magazine, February 1898.

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• All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Ideas, Two, Progress

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• Truth exists; only lies are invented.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Truth, Lying

  Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917-52 (Day and Night, Notebooks, 1952) p. 20

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• Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.

  Thomas Cole

  Perfection

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• Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.

  Adolf Hitler

  Genius, New Inventions, Mass

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• The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

  Orson Welles

  Hollywood, Gangsters

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

  Edmund Burke

  Knaves, Dupes, Credulity

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.363

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• By and large books are mankind's best invention.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Mankind

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• Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

  Walt Disney

  World, Fancy, Fame

  c.1966 Comment to his wife during his last illness. Quoted in Leonard Mosley Disney's World (1985).

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• Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Judgment, Results, Labor

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• Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

  P.J. Wolfson

  Technology, Men, Long

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• One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

  William Congreve

  Giving, Age, Destruction

  William Congreve (1775). “The old batchelor. The double-dealer. Love for love. The mourning bride”, p.102

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• Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.

  Joseph Jastrow

  Perfect, Steps, Improvement

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• The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Corporations, Modern, Liability

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• The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

  Janet Malcolm

  Character, Journalism, Greek Tragedy

  Janet Malcolm (2011). “The Journalist And The Murderer”, p.147, Granta Books

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• Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.

  Harold Bloom

  Personality

  "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human". Book by Harold Bloom, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1998.

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• In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Revolution, Rebellious, Ends

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1896). “Recollections”, p.85, Library of Alexandria

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• Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Instance

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Intellectual, Venture, Company

  "Trolling a 'patent troll' with ... trolls" by Helen A.S. Popkin and Helen A.S. Popkin, www.today.com. November 24, 2011.

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• Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Mind, Great Inventions, Remember

  Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.6, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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