Anything that won't sell I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility and utility is success.

In the 18th century James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which at the same time assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.

What business has science and capitalism got bringing all these new inventions into the works before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

What we must understand is that the industries processes and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

People think of the inventor as a screwball but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

I'm proud of my invention but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

If a June night could talk it would probably boast it invented romance.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Well I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought you know this group is really reinventing the circus as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.

All national institutions of churches whether Jewish Christian or Turkish appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind and monopolize power and profit.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.