best practices are useful reference points, but they must come with a warning label : The more you rely on external intelligence, the less you will value an internal idea. And this is the age of the idea
~ Gyan Nagpal
Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream.
~ Walt Whitman
[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.
~ Bill Bryson
I think I must have invented you on one of those days I was really bored.
~ Aleksandra Ninkovic
I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?
~ Ryan Lilly
Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them.
~ Amit Ray
The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.
~ Seth Godin
The world is desperately imperfect. Even if a quarter of the working people were engrossed in new thoughts and inventions and lived off the others, humanity would still gain tremendously thanks to the constant stream of inventions and intellectual work emerging from this horde of people striving upward.
~ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
The garage is the space for the hacker, the tinkerer, the maker. The garage is not defined by a single field or industry; instead, it is defined by the eclectic interests of its inhabitants. It is a space where intellectual networks converge.
~ Steven Johnson
Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer.
~ Mario Stinger
Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.
~ Alexandre Dumas
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.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
.....I don't think infinity is a limit.
~ Farooq A. Shiekh
Great triumphs of engineering genius—the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail— ... are rather invention than engineering proper.
~ Arthur Mellen Wellington
It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.
~ Marty Rubin
On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: “In many cases there are times when an invention is technologically possible – and in which it may indeed appear necessary, as the telescope may have – but without a market the idea will not sell, and in the absence of the technical and social infrastructure to support it, the invention will not survive.
~ James Burke
Novelists invent characters, poets invent themselves.
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
~ Antoine Lavoisier
The strength of a patent doesn’t come from its claims, it comes from the invention
~ Kalyan C. Kankanala
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
~ Tom Clancy
Failure is your invention.
~ Sophia Amoruso
Doubt is the father of invention.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
~ Octavio Paz
I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.
~ Mikhail Kalashnikov
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
~ Bill Watterson
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
~ Lascelles Abercrombie
