Inventions Quotes


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These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

- Alfred Hitchcock

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking

- Will Rogers

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

- Leonardo Da Vinci

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried

- Thomas Jefferson

I invented the cordless extension cord.

- Stephen Wright

Doubt is the father of invention.

- Galileo Galilei

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

- Rutherford B. Hayes