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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.

Ray Kurzweil

Invention

Sense

World

I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.

Dean Kamen

Innovation

Invention

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.

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

Mikhail Kalashnikov

Invention

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Edward Hopper

Imagination

Invention

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

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.