An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.
The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives.
The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade.
I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.
Necessity... the mother of invention.
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.
My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.
I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.
I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
After the wheel, the PlayStation is the best invention of all time.
I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that.
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.