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  • Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

  • There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

    Funny   Science   Fire  
    "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.
  • The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

    Funny   Im Sorry   Witty  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.

    Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.21
  • Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval between his two drawings and made a complete panorama. Now, 163 years later, I was able to use his great invention to elaborate on his youthful dream of capturing and fixing the fleeting image. In doing so, I may also have added another little bit to the soul of this extraordinary place.

    John Pfahl (1997). “Permutations on the picturesque”
  • Writing is the great invention of the world.

    Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.7, Library of America
  • An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn't work out, you had your head cut off.

    "A Genius and His Magic Camera". LIFE magazine, October 27, 1972.
  • Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  • Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't underestimate the value of that. But they're not designed to take care of social needs.

    Interview with Mark Shapiro, September 05, 2000.
  • The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.

    Real   Book   Men  
  • Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

    Book   Drinking   Beer  
    Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.112, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

  • There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

    Wisdom   Fire   Politics  
  • Great inventions are never, and great discoveries are seldom, the work of any one mind. Every great invention is really an aggregation of minor inventions, or the final step of a progression. It is not usually a creation, but a growth, as truly so as is the growth of the trees in the forest.

    "The Growth of the Steam Engine". Popular Science, Volume 12, No. 1, p. 11, November 1877.
  • I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

    "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.
  • Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

    Art   Distance   Writing  
    Abraham Lincoln's address on discoveries and inventions at Fort Wayne, Indiana, February 18, 1935.
  • remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

    Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.6, Usborne Publishing Ltd
  • This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories, our public utilities, gave us the telegraph, the telephone, the electric light, the automobile, the airplane, the radio and a higher standard of living for all the people than obtains anywhere else in the world. No great invention ever came from a government-owned industry.

  • We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

  • To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

    "Behavior-Based Robotics". Book by Ronald C. Arkin, 1998.
  • I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

  • I'm onstage for an hour.I do an hour of stand-up. Actually, I do 10 minutes standing up and 50 minutes sitting in a chair. Oh, occasionally, I stand up again to do a dance or put over a song. But mostly I sit down. A great invention, sitting down.

  • 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 (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.480, The Floating Press
  • One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

    Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England
  • We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

  • You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

  • There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never fail to take a deep interest. The progress of the human mind is never traced with such a lively interest as through the steps by which it perfects a great invention; and there is certainly no invention respecting which this minute information will be more eagerly sought after, than in the case of the steam-engine.

  • There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not merely learning, but learning to learn, not velocity, but acceleration. Learning to learn is one of the great inventions of living things. It is tremendously important. It makes evolution, biological as well as social, go faster. And it involves the development of the individual.

  • All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isn’t all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later sparks another idea, or it’s reinterpreted in an unexpected way. Collaboration brings small sparks together to generate breakthrough innovation.

    Ideas   Long   Innovation  
  • I love technology. Matches, to light a fire is really high tech. The wheel is REALLY one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that I am an ignoramus about technology. I once looked for the 'ON' button on the computer and came to find out it was on the back. Then I thought, anyone who would put the 'on' switch on the back, where you can't find it, doesn't do any good for my psyche. The one time I did get the computer on, I couldn't turn the damn thing off!

    Technology   Fire   Light  
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