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

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!

Opera next to Gothic architecture is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.