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Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
The unveiling of a technical or organisational innovation to the public is what constitutes its introduction.
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Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
Fridtjof Nansen
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As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
Michel Foucault
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It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.
Joseph Haydn
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But how to raise a sum in the different States has been my greatest difficulty.
Robert Fulton
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The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.
James Naismith
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To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.
Hugh Jackman
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I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.
Damien Hirst
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
John Stuart Mill
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You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.
Shimon Peres
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The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.
Paul Virilio
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Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Gustav Mahler
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I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
Norman MacCaig
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After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.
Andrea Pirlo
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Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once.
Thomas Cole
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The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.
Adolf Hitler
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Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
Whitney M. Young
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The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.
Nicholas Murray Butler
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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.
Dean Kamen
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And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.
Aristotle
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There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.
Josef Albers
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The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.
H. L. Mencken
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Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.
Jeff Bezos
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Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act.
Carl Menger
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There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions
Ethel Merman
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An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.
Eli Whitney
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Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
Bertrand Russell
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We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.
John Keats
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Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.
Amar Bose
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The invention of photography destroyed the canons of representational, imitative art.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
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A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Carolyn Wells
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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
George Bernard Shaw
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Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
Jeff Bezos
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I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.
Steve Jobs
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... inventions and purely human institutions.
Jean Meslier
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
John Galsworthy
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It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind
Isaac Asimov
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If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.
John Banville