Here are some fun quotes from The Quotations Page and World of Quotes.
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. (Charles F. Kettering)
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. (Agatha Christie)
Getting caught is the mother of invention. (Robert Byrne)
Want, the mistress of invention. (Mrs. Susannah Centlivre)
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. (Eric Hoffer)
Invention is the mother of necessity. (Thorstein Veblen)
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. (Charles H. Duell)
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought. (Jonathan Swift)
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. (Thomas A. Edison)
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. (Charles F. Kettering)
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. (Agatha Christie)
Getting caught is the mother of invention. (Robert Byrne)
Want, the mistress of invention. (Mrs. Susannah Centlivre)
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. (Eric Hoffer)
Invention is the mother of necessity. (Thorstein Veblen)
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. (Charles H. Duell)
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought. (Jonathan Swift)
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. (Thomas A. Edison)
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