Top Invention Quotes
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
Tim O'Reilly
Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.
Steve Lacy
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 of nothing.
Joshua Reynolds
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly
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An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
Tim O'Reilly 
70% of people like this quote
Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.
Steve Lacy
67% of people like this quote
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 of nothing.
Joshua Reynolds
64% of people like this quote
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
Mikhail Gorbachev
62% of people like this quote
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly
62% of people like this quote
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Pierre Bayle
62% of people like this quote
Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.
Tomas Luis de Victoria
60% of people like this quote
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson
59% of people like this quote
Popular Invention Authors
William ShakespeareAmbrose Bierce PlatoDoug CouplandEmile M. CioranLyndon B. JohnsonHenry MillerErnest HemingwayDave BarrySamuel RichardsonJonathan SwiftJoseph ConradThomas A. EdisonBen KingsleyLeonardo da Vinci
Steve LacyAlfred HitchcockGustav MahlerBill WattersonDaniel WebsterHenri PoincareSydney SmithGeorge WaldJohn AdamsJared DiamondWalter ScottAgatha ChristieNorman MacCaigMose AllisonWalter Jon Williams
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