Quotes About Invention

One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John McCarthy around the time Algol was invented.

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

Ad undici anni, sia pure precoci, si sogna vasto e confuso, senza riferimento alle cose reali, inventando il futuro, e sentendo solo il terrore la baldanza e l'inafferrabile acerbità della vita.

as you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs...

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

Io le spiegai che l'amore non esisteva, che era un'invenzione di un italiano chiamato Petrarca e dei trovatori provenzali. Che quanto la gente credeva un cristallino fiotto dell'emozione, una pura effusione del sentimento era il desiderio istintivo dei gatti in calore celato dietro le belle parole e i miti della letteratura.

Leer es protestar contra las insuficiencias de la vida. Quien busca en la ficción lo que no tiene, dice, sin necesidad de decirlo, ni siquiera saberlo, que la vida tal como es, no nos basta para colmar nuestra sed de absoluto fundamento de la condición humana, y que debería ser mejor. Inventamos las ficciones, para poder vivir de alguna manera, las muchas vidas que quisiéramos tener, cuando a penas disponemos de una sola.

La ficción es una mentira que encubre una profunda verdad; ella es la vida que no fue, la que los hombres y mujeres de una época dada quisieron tener y no tuvieron y por eso debieron inventarla. p. 13. Cartas a un joven novelista.

Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, 'Everyone who's ever taken a shower has had an idea, It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a French monk, Marcel Audiffren, invented the world's first electric-powered household refrigerator

ONCE I STOOD on the bank of a rice paddy in rural Sichuan Province, and a lean and aging Chinese peasant, wearing a faded forty-year-old blue jacket issued by the Mao government in the early years of the Revolution, stood knee deep in water and apropos of absolutely nothing shouted defiantly at me, "We Chinese invented many things!

is significant that the first attempt to build a refrigerator in the United States was undertaken for keeping butter (as opposed to what happened in Australia, where in 1853 James Harrison, a Scot who had moved there, developed the first really fully functional refrigerator and used it for chilling beer).

the four great inventions—paper, compass, gunpowder, and printing

Often the inventor that history remembers is not the true inventor, but the one who made the idea commercially successful. Thomas Edison didn't invent the lightbulb either.

Sólo oprime este botón y puedes aumentar veinte veces el peso de un objeto. Ponlo en reversa y lo puedes hacer flotar. -¿En serio? -¿Estás loco? Es un bate de baseball envuelto en papel brillante, amigo. ¿Cómo podría alguien construir un bastón de gravedad?

When, over the following months, Minta Randall found that Eustace apparently reciprocated her profoundest and most secret feelings, she thought she had never lived before, or knew what life could hold, or what absolute power one heart could exert upon another. She perceived no trace, fossil, or echo of this wild sensation anywhere around her, and concluded that she and Eustace had invented it together, which would be, she thought, just like them.

Doch die Erinnerung spielt uns Streiche. Erinnern iat ein anderes Wort für Erfinden, und nichts ist unzuverlässiger.

The wheel, the internet, the pint glass, the electric guitar: these were all important inventions that made the world a better place to live in, but we must add another innovation—the pork chop bun.

We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.

If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilised discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.