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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Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
Walter Jon Williams 
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If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
Henry A. Wallace
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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
Sydney Smith
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The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.
Robert Fitzgerald
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It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.
Tim Finn
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
Walter Scott
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Jonathan Swift
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O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
William Shakespeare
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
Garrett Hardin
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The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.
Seymour Papert
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