#invention

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#chaos #consist #creating #does #humbly

It's just a great, legendary comic book hero and it's one that has never been kind of been brought back to life after Lynda Carter. I mean, it's a reinvention. When Tim Burton reinvented Batman after Adam West, and when Donner reinvented Superman after George Reeves, it's time to do that with Wonder Woman. ↗

— Joel Silver

#after #back #batman #been #book

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#difficulty #discoveries #established #great #greatest

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

— Enrico Bombieri

#inventions #math #perspective #science #science

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#altered #based #basis #deeply #discoveries

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ↗

— Dave Barry

#call #communication #development #history #human

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

— Alex Chiu

#did #does #i #invention #nor

None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#believe #call #day #die #i

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#constitutes #continue #find #greatest #greatest pleasure