We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.
I'm onstage for an hour.I do an hour of stand-up. Actually, I do 10 minutes standing up and 50 minutes sitting in a chair. Oh, occasionally, I stand up again to do a dance or put over a song. But mostly I sit down. A great invention, sitting down.
Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.
Remembering is a great invention of the mind.
remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.
Writing is the great invention of the world.
Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best
You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.