The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'

The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

The invention of the camera enabled the reinvention of the British monarchy for the modern era.

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

A little renovation and reinvention is a positive thing.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

The hotel industry is a very modern invention - it only really started to become branded in the 1950s.

Architecture is invention.

I think the Internet is the greatest invention since women.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

Life is composed of different inventions.

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.