Important Invention Quotes

#1. The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.

John Seely Brown

#2. I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.

Henry Bessemer

#3. Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.

Dennis Ritchie

#4. The principle virtue of anyone who made an important invention is curious persistence.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make it the most important invention of the 20th century.

Ben Affleck

#6. Creativity is one of the most important brain functions in developing youth. It is the ultimate road to invention. I believe it is really important to both nurture and encourage this in children - and adults, too!

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#7. The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.

Vint Cerf

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

Karlheinz Stockhausen

#9. Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion, more interesting than the inventions themselves.

George Polya

#10. It takes three facts to make a truth.

Eugene Manlove Rhodes

#11. The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany

George Will

#12. The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

George Bernard Shaw

#13. The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

Dave Barry

#14. Claiming that a little piece of green paper is more important than, say, the tree it's made from - even though that tree provides oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Without the trees, we would all die out, but cash is an invention that is less than two thousand years old.

Bella Forrest

#15. I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

Anais Nin

#16. Music and art are two very different activities for me. However, the use of imagery links them, and invention is important for both.

Ed Askew

#17. I think the inner person is the most important ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

Julia Child

#18. I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

Robert Moog

#19. The book. The book ... think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever.

Jann Arden

#20. An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the most important development in mathematics since the invention of calculus 300 years ago.

Stephen Smale

#21. The appreciation of wine was based solely on the way it tasted. The invention of drinking glasses meant that the color, transparency, and clarity of wine became important, too. We are used to seeing what we drink, but this was new to the Romans, and they loved it.

Mark Miodownik

#22. The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.

Pam Houston

#23. I knew my value because the world seemed to be denying it, and that just made me want to prove it even more.

A.J. Mendez Brooks

#24. 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.

Chris Hadfield

#25. it was not so much the new machines that revolutionized the world, impressive and important as they were. The truly heroic invention was the economic, social, and political institutions in which these machines were embedded.

Sven Beckert

#26. The first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to the Creator and Preserver those acknowledgments which are due to Him for our being and the hourly protection He affords us.

Samuel

#27. Full bloom, the pastures turning an impossible emerald green, she

Rita Mae Brown

#28. I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He's so rebellious, so subversive. I mean, for a musician, seriously, could you find a more predictable stance than that? He's as edgy as a hacky sack, which also describes his music.

Greg Gutfeld

#29. The impact of television on our culture is ... indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.

Carl Sandburg

#30. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"

Chuck Berry

#31. Mr. Obama is proud of his belief that government knows best. When he told the world that individuals were not totally responsible for their personal success, that government has a major role in it, many Americans were taken aback. But Barack Obama sincerely believes that.

Bill O'Reilly

#32. Cross and resurrection are the South and North polls, true gospel polarities, of a single, undivided, salvation world. Remove either Paul and you've got salvation.

Eugene H. Peterson

#33. The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with words and ideas instead of fighting with swords is the very basis of our civilization, and especially of all its legal and parliamentary institutions.

Karl Popper

#34. Beginning in 1939, there were events well to the east of Istanbul that seems to have started a progressive sequence to the west. The question is, will the sequence continue further ... Unfortunately, we think the answer is yes.

Thomas Parsons

#35. When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

Dave Grohl

#36. Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

Nikola Tesla

#37. I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It's the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.

Marianne Williamson

#38. The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.

Nikola Tesla

#39. The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press.

L. Neil Smith

#40. The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

Ha-Joon Chang