An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
Tim O'Reilly
To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow... →
Orhan Pamuk
You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.
Shimon Peres
Necessity... the mother of invention.
Plato
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory;... →
Joshua Reynolds
It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.
Michael Servetus
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
William Shakespeare
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
Mary Shelley
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
Karlheinz Stockhausen