The public, who consume the new commodity or profit by the new invention, are much better judges of its merit than the government can be.Quote by Charles Babbage about invention
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about invention
The invention of epic poetry corresponds with a definite and, in the history of the world, often recurring state of society.Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about invention
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.Quote by John Adams about invention
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about invention
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about invention
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.Quote by Ernest Hemingway about invention
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about invention
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention. The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some...Quote by John Dos Passos about invention
A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity or even patented for himself must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.Quote by James Payn about invention
As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.Quote by Michel Foucault about invention
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.Quote by Charles F. Kettering about invention