Quotes about Invention

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

You didn't create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I handed you an invention you had never seen before, you wouldn't know it's purpose, and the invention itself wouldn't be able to tell you either. Only the creator or the owner's manual could reveal it's purpose.

The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.

The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.

Ideas... they have the power.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?