Getting caught is the mother of invention.
Robert Byrne
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Charles F. Kettering
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
Eric Hoffer
Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage have developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped.
George Orwell
Doubt is the father of invention.
Galileo Galilei
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly
The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.
Robert Brustein
The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education.
Joel Hildebrand
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
Whitney M. Young, Jr.
Christ never existed, but is an invention of the Church.
Luigi Cascioli
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'
James Naismith
Invention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen
The Invention of Love.
Ben Brantley
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
Northrop Frye
This is the latest invention that you have invented.
Christian Vieri
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer.
David Leavitt
An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?
Rutherford B. Hayes
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
Willy Wonka
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
Douglas Engelbart
Marriage is a wonderful invention, but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit!
Billy Connelly
The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.
David Cronenberg
So without that Canadian invention we were grounded.
Chris Hadfield
The patent application was to protect our invention. As you can see . . . the invention is significant.
Craig Mchugh
He is simply an invention.
The Centre
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Carolyn Wells
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.
Roger Von Oech
It never happened. It's an invention of some irresponsible writer.
Jeffrey Loria
You can be involved and not have ever thought about science or invention in your life. You can have a lot of fun.
Brandee Bryant
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
Tom Clancy
What I love about Paul's work is the combination of the endless invention with a strong dramatic imagination.
Robert Gottlieb
Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.
Margaret Mead
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Pierre Bayle
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. To invent is to discern, to choose.
Henri Poincare
Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
Remy De Gourmont
Battle Creek has such a rich history of entrepreneurs and invention, and it seems some of that spirit had died down. I'd like to see it back.
Charles Rose
The idea behind the museum was that this office is as old as the country, and the story of America is closely tied to invention. This office was founded on the idea that creativity and innovation should be encouraged, and you can actually see that here.
Richard Maulsby
We had to be innovative. They say necessity is the mother of invention.
Dave Jackson
The existence of a terrorist cell is an invention, ... we've been living here for 20 years, we come from the same country, we have the same religion and the same customs.
Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas
They were simply building blocks. It's as if someone built a novel house and then claimed invention of hammers and doors and nails.
Daniel Furniss
His invention is ubiquitous and has had as much if not more impact than the invention of the piano. He's probably one of the most important musical instrument makers in history.
David Borden
If necessity is the mother of invention, then laziness must be its father.
Carl Stoddard
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
Pierre Bayle
The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil.
Elsa Maxwell
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