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...

The fools will forever pay the wise for the things that takes only wisdom to do successfully.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone,...

Discovery’s friend is creativity

One must always account for the vagaries of truth.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

I want to create a cologne that smells like a whisper. It’ll be for all the secret admirers out there.

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Dagny,” he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, “think of the first man who thought of making a steel girder. He knew what he saw, what he thought and...

Apparently, the glasses didn’t need to be connected to the internet for the wearer to poke into someone’s personal life. Even though a search engine could lead to an individual’s address, the browser couldn’t actually...

Boredom is a lack of crazy. Its a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you’re bored, blame yourself.

A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving...

Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew...

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.

Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of...

During the youthful period of mankind’s spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man’s own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal...

I just invented a device that eliminates vice. It looks like a bottle of booze, only it’s empty, because I just drank it.

I’d like to invent a product that’ll turn 18-year-olds into 21-year-olds, and sell it in front of bars.

Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that...

Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.

You were created, fashioned and designed in a special form to leave in the world something that did not exist before you were born!

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

Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.

It is through vision that innovation is conceived;through will power it is then materialized.

I had a dream about you. You listened quietly as I told my idea for an invention that could dry your hair with in minutes of getting out of the bath. After giving you my...

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.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

Curiosity is mother of all inventions

I invented an invisible machine to help you get to sleep. It only works after your eyes stay shut for a length of time. It’s also so quiet that you won’t hear it.

Sometimes, the things They say, the laws They make, the way the world spins doesn’t make any sense at all…Which is exactly why you have to ask “Why?” and keep on asking until you get...

Invention is the mother of necessity.