Why in the world would anyone try to disinvent the handbrake?

But we’ve also go this stunning capacity to disinvent and invent resources.

I just think that we have invented nuclear weapons, and we cannot disinvent them.

"You can't disinvent the hydrogen bomb," he said.

We cannot disinvent that.

It was impossible to disinvent nuclear weapons, but it was also essential not to lose sight of the risk that they entailed.

Though war toys aren't great, "Toys" sometimes gives the impression that it would like to disinvent everything that's battery-operated and remote-controlled.

If we are too afraid to state our dreams - even to begin to sketch out possible futures - then we have begun to disinvent the greatest facility humans have: to invent better.

The problem is to be a thinking thing; the solution is to revert to a prethinking state, and even - in the most extreme voices in his fiction - to disinvent humanity itself.

If the fact that "you cannot disinvent an idea" is an argument against nuclear disarmament, why does it not equally apply to biological and chemical weapons or, for that matter, dumdum bullets, all of which have been outlawed by treaty?

But Lord Mandelson appeared to rule out any direct intervention, telling the Lords: “I cannot impose good industrial relations on the company or disinvent the internet [a key factor in the 10 per cent annual fall in UK mail volumes].”