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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John B. S. Haldane 
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This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.
Bill Irwin 
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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Dave Barry
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The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.
John Bruton
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Popular Invention Authors
William ShakespeareAmbrose Bierce PlatoDoug CouplandEmile M. CioranLyndon B. JohnsonHenry MillerErnest HemingwayDave BarrySamuel RichardsonJonathan SwiftJoseph ConradThomas A. EdisonBen KingsleyLeonardo da Vinci
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