Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.
The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.
I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.
If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.
Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.
Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect,but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
And I believe what I believe Is what makes me what I am I did not make it, no it is making me It is the very truth of God and not The invention of any man.
What I saw quite clearly in the '80s, before the internet, was that the whole world was shifting toward digital formats, and that didn't matter whether it's movies or writing or whatever. It was something that was coming. And with the invention of the World Wide Web in the early '90s, when we were teaching our first courses, or the arrival of the internet by way of the browser, which opened up the internet to everybody - soon it was just revolutionary.
His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.
Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.
And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.