In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

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.

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.

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

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.