Quotes on Invention

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.

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

When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.*

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

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.

Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do.

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.

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

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.