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| Hårtork för undervattensbruk. | Lucius Apuleius (125-) |
| Icke kolsyrad champagne. | Lucius Apuleius (125-) |
| Katapultstol för helikopter. | Lucius Apuleius (125-) |
| Kattlucka till kylskåpet. | Lucius Apuleius (125-) |
| Kombinerat ankare/livboj. | Lucius Apuleius (125-) |
| Kvast med böjt skaft, för bättre kurvhållning. | Lucius Apuleius (125-) |
| Ljudisolerade högtalare. | Lucius Apuleius (125-) |
| Luftkonditionering för motorcykel. | Lucius Apuleius (125-) |
| Luktfri parfym. | Lucius Apuleius (125-) |
| Musfälla för datormöss. | Lucius Apuleius (125-) |
| Naturell deodorant. | Lucius Apuleius (125-) |
| Nintendo printer. | Lucius Apuleius (125-) |
| Nöden är uppfinningarnas moder. | Lucius Apuleius (125-) |
| Nöden är uppfinningens moder, lathet är dess fader | Mikael Häggström |
| Supraledande isoleringsmaterial. | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) |
| Säkerhetsbälte för motorcykel. | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) |
| Topplösa kondomer för bättre känsla. | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) |
| Tvätteriautomat för nudistkolonier. | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) |
| Uppblåsbar darttavla för campare. | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) |
| Uppblåsbart ankare. | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) |
| Uppfinnande, måste det ödmjukt medges, består inte i att skapa utifrån ingenting, utan utav kaos. | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) |
| Necessity, the mother of invention | George Farquhar (1677-1707) |
| All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. | Mark Kennedy |
| An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one? (made a call from Washington to Pennsylvania with Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, patented on 7 March 1876) | Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) |
| Want is the mistress of invention | Susanna Centlivre |
| The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt | Henry George Bohn (1796-1884) |
| Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| Doubt is the father of invention. | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
| I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent | Paul Simon (1941-) |
| Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. | Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) |
| Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) |
| Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Want is the mistress of invention | Susanna Centlivre |
| There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| Necessity, the mother of invention | George Farquhar (1677-1707) |
| These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. | Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) |
| Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. | Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) |
| I invented the cordless extension cord. | Stephen Wright (1955-) |
| All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. | Mark Kennedy |
| Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| Let's drive not just breakthroughs in new products, but new ways to give more and more people access to these inventions and their benefits. This is a broad and important mission, and I believe we all have a part to play in it. | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |