Quotes on Invention

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

Author: Mose Allison

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.

Author: Jimmy Black

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

Author: Jared Diamond

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

Author: Lefty Gomez

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.

Author: Chris Hadfield

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

Author: Mikhail Kalashnikov

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

Author: Ray Kurzweil

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

Author: Norman MacCaig

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

Author: Patrick Macnee

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

Author: Gustav Mahler

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

Author: Demetri Martin

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

Author: Fridtjof Nansen

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

Author: Tim O'Reilly

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.

Author: Joshua Reynolds

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

Author: Karlheinz Stockhausen

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Author: Bill Watterson

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

Author: Daniel Webster

Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

Author: P. Wolfson

Creativity is the fuel for invention, the spark for inspiration, and the key to unlocking endless possibilities.

Author: Emma Stevens

Creativity is seeing the world through the lens of possibilities, not limitations.

Author: Lily Chang

Embrace the unknown, for it holds the essence of creativity and growth.

Author: Stella Parker

Imagination is the spark that ignites innovation.

Author: Lily Yang

Life has its ups and downs. Inventing the hammock was definitely an 'up!'

Author: Bob Bauer