Quotes on Invention

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)

And, my favorite:

• To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. (Thomas A. Edison)