Laziness is the mother of all bad habits, but ultimately she is a mother and we should respect her

Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so,...

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

… the invention of the mechanical clock in medieval Europe. This was one of the great inventions in this history of mankind — not in a class with fire and the wheel, but comparable to...

the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved

Captivity ends when creativity begins

[…] there is one inexorable law of technology, and it is this: when revolutionary inventions become widely accessible, they cease to be accessible. Technology is inherently democratic, because it promises the same services to all;...

All one’s inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.

Inventions Change the World, Not Patents

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important...

The hamster generates heat by running on the wheel. If you get a big enough hamster, it will keep your whole face warm.

And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable, that when he died he told his sons that he had left unto...

This is one of the best white bass-catching inventions ever made. That’s a fact. When the white bass run starts, not a one of them will be safe.

I know not what discoveries, what inventions, what thoughts may leap from the brain of the world. I know not what garments of glory may be woven by the years to come. I cannot dream...

[Lulu is launching the Blooker – whose name is an affectionate nod to another important literary prize – as a global contest to mark the 450th anniversary this year of Gutenberg’s invention of moveable type...

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks or sailing ships–although both were condemned on religious grounds in various non-Western societies.

By focusing on the interior of a speaker’s larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him....

I never said that. Pure invention. Pure invention,

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...

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

If you find a community with less production and less inspiring inventions, then know it is a sign of lack of Business Leaders and full of General Managers do not know what they can manage...

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.