Quotes About Invention

When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the 'low-hanging fruit' has been exhausted. So radio, flush toilets, electricity, and automobiles - a lot of very basic inventions - have spread to almost all households.

We invented a history of Poland as a tolerant, open country, a country that has not been tainted by any atrocities committed against its minorities.

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

America was invented out of a desire for rebirth, for fresh starts. It was the place where a man could be the author of himself, reinventing himself as an aristocrat, but somehow these stories of renaissance kept ending in murder.

What if you could just invent your family, your home, your life? You could. You could call Sunday Wednesday. Be awake and living at 3 a.m. Use T-shirts instead of sheets. Eat lettuce like an apple. Blow your nose on socks. Take four unrelated people and make a family.

He never liked things that weren't his idea first.

Nearly every major innovation of the 20th century took place without claims of epiphany.

an idea is a combination of other ideas.

UNLOCKING YOUR IDEA

If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they simply would have said a faster horse. —attributed to Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company Your

Software is easy to make, except when you want it to do something new. And then, of course, there is a corollary: The only software that's worth making is software that does something new.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

Man keeps inventing things all the time.

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

If you want to be a real entrepreneur you have to be the cause, you have to be the creator of someone else's new realty. Which eliminates time, space, motion, and friction.

One day they will invent a time machine and, like the internet, it will be used primarily for boning.

You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can't invent more time.

I'm still working on my time machine. If I ever perfect it, I'm going back in time to prevent Ace Ventura 2 from being made. And then I'm going after Hitler.

Dear Frank Einstein, Please invent time machine. Send your books back in time to me in 1978. Also a levitating skateboard. Tommy

Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

Every time you think all the technology that had been created already, all you have to do is look around and then there's someone new who's born with a new idea.

Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.