Great Inventions Quotes

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention, and I wouldn't underestimate the value of that. But they're not designed to take care of social needs.

I'm onstage for an hour.I do an hour of stand-up. Actually, I do 10 minutes standing up and 50 minutes sitting in a chair. Oh, occasionally, I stand up again to do a dance or put over a song. But mostly I sit down. A great invention, sitting down.

I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.