Top 171 Invention Quotes

I like to think of Photography 1.0 as the invention of photography. Photography 2.0 is digital technology and the move from film and paper to everything on a chip. Photography 3.0 is the use of the camera, space, and color and to capture an object in the third dimension.
Edward Burtynsky
The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we’ve got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.
Barry Diller
For thousands of years, until about 1850, you see humans accumulating more and more power by the invention of new technologies and by new systems of organization in the economy and in politics, but you don’t see any real improvement in the well-being of the average person.
Yuval Noah Harari
Stumbling upon the next great invention in an ‘ah-ha!’ moment is a myth.
James Dyson
In primitive society, man produced directly for the satisfaction of his own wants, but with the development of society came differentiation of function; exchange and barter arose, various trades sprang up, and with the necessity of commercial intercourse came the invention of money.
Charles A. Beard
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.
Malcolm Nance
We’re seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It’s a golden age of invention.
David Hanson
I love dark chocolate. I’m also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That’s pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.
Tom Lenk
America demands invention and innovation to succeed.
Kit Bond
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
Tom Clancy
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.
Hillary Clinton
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don’t wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
J. M. Coetzee
What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.
Marc Davis