invention

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.

On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: __n many cases there are times when an invention is technologically possible _ and in which it may indeed appear necessary, as the telescope may have _ but without a market the idea will not sell, and in the absence of the technical and social infrastructure to support it, the invention will not survive.

It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

Great triumphs of engineering genius__he locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail_ ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

.....I don't think infinity is a limit.

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.

The garage is the space for the hacker, the tinkerer, the maker. The garage is not defined by a single field or industry; instead, it is defined by the eclectic interests of its inhabitants. It is a space where intellectual networks converge.

Men are creatures of invention and are usually determined not to accept no for an answer.

The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.

Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them.

The world is desperately imperfect. Even if a quarter of the working people were engrossed in new thoughts and inventions and lived off the others, humanity would still gain tremendously thanks to the constant stream of inventions and intellectual work emerging from this horde of people striving upward.

I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?

I think I must have invented you on one of those days I was really bored.

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream.