Ten of the Best: Quotes about Invention
OK, so we’re all aware that necessity is the mother of invention, but here are ten more delicious quotes about inventions and the inventing process.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That’s how the patent office defines it. That’s an invention.
Dean Kamen
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
Tim O’Reilly
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci
I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Edward Hopper
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs
The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.
Seymour Papert
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
Helen Frankenthaler
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.
Dave Barry
Reader Comments
I'm an African inventor having two patents & the third one pending due to luck of scientific equipments to measure Emissions & dioxins. We Africa inventors have world class inventions but we luck capacity to expose our talents. Hope this finds this organization well
Posted by Kenneth mbaabu on December 26, 2016
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