There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
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Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
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To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.
Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.
.. He shook his head at the wonderful invention of folly in its guises and forms.
Invention is the mother of all necessities.
The tempest unleashes an alphabet letters fall through the apertures of crazy angles to spell out the future uprooting the course of invention and enslaving the masters
Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.
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Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.
A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.
I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how.
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.
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The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage, and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.
Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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