#invention

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#also #any #artisan #been #capital

So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

#canadians #grounded #important #invention #key

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#ample #constitution #enduring #fertility #genius

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#assemblage #before #defines #how #ideas

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

— Dean Kamen

#changed #communicate #consider #data #high-speed

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#because #cases #caught #fact #forget

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#innovations #inventions #language #me #million

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands. ↗

— Giorgio Vasari

#express #forming #genius #hands #idea

Mothers are the necessity of invention. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#invention #mothers #necessity

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. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#enjoy #enjoys #fiction #gene #invention