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I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

Quotes by Yusuf Hamied

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

William Shakespeare

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

Quotes by William Congreve

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

Quotes by Whitney M. Young

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Quotes by Walter Jon Williams

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

Quotes by Townsend Harris

I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.

Quotes by Tom Lenk

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Quotes by Thorstein Veblen

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

Quotes by Thomas Heatherwick

The U.K. has been very progressive about on-demand, and the iPlayer has been a great invention. It has trained a generation of viewers to expect on-demand - unfortunately, it trains them to expect free!

Quotes by Ted Sarandos

The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

Quotes by Spike Jonze

I have no doubt that my origin and ethnicity have strongly influenced controversy over my invention of email.

Quotes by Shiva Ayyadurai

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Quotes by Rudolf Arnheim

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

Quotes by Robert Byrne

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

Quotes by Ray Kurzweil

Was there ever a better invention in the cookie world than the Oreo?

Quotes by Rachel Hollis

Necessity... the mother of invention.

Plato

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Quotes by Pierre Bayle

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

Quotes by Pierre Bayle

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.

Quotes by Paul Rand

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Quotes by Patrick Macnee

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

Quotes by Orson Welles

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

Quotes by Orson Welles

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Quotes by Octavio Paz

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

Quotes by Norman MacCaig

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

Quotes by Nicolas Roeg

I think the Internet is the greatest invention since women.

Quotes by Nicolas Winding Refn

We should have more invention.

Quotes by Nathan Myhrvold

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

Quotes by Mikhail Kalashnikov

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

Quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Quotes by Michel Foucault

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

Quotes by Michael Servetus

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Mary Shelley

The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.

Quotes by Mark Kurlansky

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

Quotes by Marc Davis

We created NATO. It was a United States invention for the collective security of Europe. It has been a Russian desire since 1947 to break up NATO.

Quotes by Malcolm Nance

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

Quotes by Lefty Gomez

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

Quotes by Lee Child

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

Quotes by Lascelles Abercrombie

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

Quotes by Kit Bond

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

Quotes by Karlheinz Stockhausen

But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

Quotes by Karlheinz Stockhausen

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

Quotes by John Gresham Machen

The hotel industry is a very modern invention - it only really started to become branded in the 1950s.

Quotes by Joe Gebbia

The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.

Quotes by Jean Piaget

The Internet, arguably the fastest world-changing invention since the Gutenberg printing press, has become the core of our social and business lives.

Quotes by Jay Inslee

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'

Quotes by James Naismith

One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.

Quotes by James Gunn

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it that it has wrought such a complete alteration in the state of man kind?

Quotes by J. C. Ryle

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Quotes by Ignazio Silone

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

Quotes by Iain McGilchrist

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Quotes by Henry George

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

Quotes by Henry Charles Carey

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

Quotes by Henri Poincare

I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.

Quotes by Helena Christensen

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

Quotes by Gustav Mahler

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

Quotes by George Wald

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Quotes by George Farquhar

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

Quotes by Fridtjof Nansen

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Quotes by Edward Hopper

The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its mineral springs were supposed to be good for you. This was before the invention of bran. In the 20th century, Cheltenham grew into an active municipality.

Quotes by Edith Pearlman

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

Quotes by Douglas Coupland

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.

Quotes by Dean Kamen

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

Quotes by David Hockney

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

Quotes by Daniel Webster

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Quotes by Cornelia Otis Skinner

I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that.

Quotes by Christien Meindertsma

In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Quotes by Chiwetel Ejiofor

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Quotes by Carolyn Wells

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Quotes by Billy Connolly

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Quotes by Bill Watterson

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

Quotes by Barry Commoner

Doubt is the father of invention.

Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

I didn't say my invention is better, nor did I say other stuff does not work.

Quotes by Alex Chiu

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