Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Inventions have long since reached their limit and I see no hope for further development.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

The very greatest things - great thoughts discoveries inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship often pondered over in sorrow and at length established with difficulty.

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.

AARP knows the future is bright for a generation that's going to remain healthy and vital for 10 20 30 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention.

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

If this liberal potential is properly channeled we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

Man's survival from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio the telephone Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange provided we are willing.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution yellow-pages directories landline telephones and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. 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!

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Art is beauty the perpetual invention of detail the choice of words the exquisite care of execution.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination not invention is the supreme master of art as of life.

Art is an invention of aesthetics which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.