Invention Quotes

... He who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new... partly from the incredulity of mankind, who will never admit the merit of anything new, until they have seen it proved by the event.

You didn’t create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I handed you an invention you had never seen before, you wouldn’t know it’s purpose, and the invention itself wouldn’t be able to tell you either. Only the creator or the owner’s manual could reveal it’s purpose.

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father.

Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Think of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words—not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another!

The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.

Poverty is the origin of invention

Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation.

If where we are now and whatever we are going through does not motivate us to leave this world better than the way we met it, we are in this world for wrong reasons.

When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

Want the mistress of invention.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

Fast can be good. Except when moving so fast and getting so far ahead of ourselves we no longer can recognize our mode of transportation or the wall we’ve hit prior to creating it.