Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.
For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions.
The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.
If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.
The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.
The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.
I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is great!
Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.
As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
When I did inventions, I always thought only of the invention itself, but the kids would ask for marketing materials.
The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade.
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.
It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.
The dishwasher is the best invention in the world, I didn't grow up with one so it's my prize possession in the kitchen!
Skype is a wonderful invention. It might be my favorite thing because I get to see my family and the ones that you love.
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative.
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
Thanksgiving is America's favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention.
What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs?
We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.
I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.
I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
The most dazzling aspect of 'Possession' is Ms. Byatt's canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century.
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.