Quotes About Invention

I love thongs. The day they were invented, sunshine broke through the clouds.

I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

You didn't invent grief. My shrink once told me that." "Really? Your shrink told you about me?

Nietzsche, for his part, posited that individual human beings would have to invent their own values in the aftermath of God's death. But this is the element of his thinking that appears weakest, psychologically: we cannot invent our own values, because we cannot merely impose what we believe on our souls. This was Carl Jung's great discovery—made in no little part because of his intense study of the problems posed by Nietzsche.

Mark Twain is good on this: "It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others.

Every writer creates his own precursors.

Nadie inventó el subjuntivo ni la conjunción copulativa. Fue una gigantesca interacción comunicativa, expresiva, hiriente o amorosa a la que pulió las herramientas lingüísticas.

In una notte di orrore, gli uomini hanno inventato l'arte.

The God they preach about is pure invention, a trick. They're the first ones to not believe in Him!

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

And as much as history serves as a medium for discovering the past, it also is, we confess, a means to invent it.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

For outdoors, he wears a mantle fastened at the shoulder with a clasp or chain; although buttons are sometimes used for decoration, the buttonhole has not been invented.

People say to me, 'How do I know if a word is real?' You know, anybody who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.

Maybe they seeded life on Earth millions of years ago, and now they're here to punish us for turning out to be such a lame species and inventing reality TV and shit?

But we also figured out how to do science, which helped us develop technology.

The same goes for Marie Curie. Before she discovered radium, you can be certain she first discovered the little man in the canoe.

William Higinbotham

a Habashaw OIR-9400

For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

There is no proof of creativity without action.

entropy taken with a negative sign', which by the way is not my invention. It happens to be precisely the thing on which Boltzmann's original argument turned.