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We should have more invention.


Nathan Myhrvold
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Doubt is the father of invention.


Ambrose Bierce
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.


Nathan Myhrvold
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Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.


Ninon de L'Enclos
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Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.


Fridtjof Nansen
Tags: Never Keep Line
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I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.


Mikhail Kalashnikov
Tags: Sad Used Proud
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Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.


Roger von Oech
Tags: Play May Mother
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The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.


Demetri Martin
Tags: Great Because Us
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Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.


Tomas Luis de Victoria
Tags: Music Man His
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The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.


John Bruton
Tags: Peace World Most
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Theophile Gautier
Tags: Beauty Art Care
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.


John Berger
Tags: Time Makes Light
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
Patrick Macnee
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
Henri Poincare
I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity.
James Woods
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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
Tags: Time Great Doing
As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.
Mose Allison
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Alfred Hitchcock
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
David Frost
Tags: Home You People
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Tanith Lee
Tags: Me Many Own
The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'
James Naismith
Tags: Would Those Need
Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.
Henry Petroski
In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
George Wald
Tags: Death Been Way
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
Robert Moog
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
Tags: Time Been Way
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.
Terry Pratchett
The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just accelerate everybody's lives. So, for me, the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind so far.
Kim Dotcom
Tags: Me Just World
Oh my God, Zumba is the greatest invention ever for women. I like to exercise, though I do nothing consistently because I get bored and impatient. With Zumba, you're dancing, you're moving your hips. So much fun.
Robin Wright
Tags: God Women You
In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is adduced that baseball is not his invention, I protest against this systematic effort to rob him of his dues.
John Montgomery Ward
Tags: Sports Some Own
I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.
Danny Boyle
Tags: Movies Like About
I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.
Marc Jacobs
Tags: Music People Me
As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is required for licensing. Instead, I work with invention, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and clinical application of artificial hearts.
Robert Jarvik
No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Tags: Health More Than
How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
David Hilbert
Tags: Time Science More
The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.
Peter Higgs
Tags: Just More Up
When people talk about televisual phenomena such as 'Big Brother,' I haven't a clue what they're talking about. Having said that, if I'm staying in a hotel and there's a television in there, I'll go straight to it and watch it as if it's some incredible new invention.
Jodhi May
Tags: People About Go
I was so surprised because I'm not too sure whether I could win a Nobel Prize, you know, because basically, physics, it means that usually people was awarded for the invention of the basic theory. But in my case, not a basic theory, in my case just making the device, you know.
Shuji Nakamura
Tags: You People Just
The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.
Yoko Ono
My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
Nathan Myhrvold