To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?
A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
I don't mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I don't even mind using someone's reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles.
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come from nothing.
Fear is a great inventor.
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love.
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
We can invent only with memory.
If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.
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