The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.
The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.
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.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something.
