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Letter "I" » invention
«They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and when the necessity is survival she can be one mean mother, but it's her child invention that's the real dangerous one.»
«The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education.»
«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
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
invention, inventor, monopolies, Monopoly, the inventor
«Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
History,
Humor,
Inventions,
Mankind
| Keywords:
beer, beers, beer can, fine, grant, History of, invention, nearly, pizza, pizzas, The History, The History of, The wheel, wheel, wheeled
«The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Communication,
Funny,
Internet
| Keywords:
call waiting, communication, development, History of, Human communication, human development, internet, invention, The History, The History of, The Internet
«There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Events
| Keywords:
altering, assume, invention, obligation, participated, participating, presumption, presumptions
«There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
composing, creating, Creative Writing, devises, devising, dreaming, epic, epics, industry, invention, Joy of, picture writing, singing, symphonies, symphony
«The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention»
«Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried»
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