Quotes About Invention

I was always taking garbage from around the house and making my own toys. I wasn't given a Wii or an Xbox or anything.

I like that I make toys.

One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.

We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.

By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have.

I'm a contract computer scientist by trade, but I'm the founder of something called the Tinkering School. It's a summer program which aims to help kids to learn how to build the things that they think of.

Learn how a 3D printer works. Get inspired. Make your own stuff. It is a wonderful time to be innovative. Connect things together. If youre into electronics, get an Arduino.

On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.

During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together.

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.

Time travel, by its very nature, was invented in all periods of history simultaneously.

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.

Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.

To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

If man could apply half the ingenuity he's exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there's no limit to what he might yet accomplish

Our first question must always be: What are we trying to maximize with our inventions?

I had come to the time in my life when prayer became necessary and so I invented gods and prayed to them

In 1914, Thomas Edison, at age sixty-seven, lost his factory to fire. It had very little insurance. No longer a young man, Edison watched his lifetime effort go up in smoke and said, "There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burnt up. Thank God we can start anew." In spite of disaster, three weeks later, he invented the phonograph. What an attitude!

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burnt up. Thank God we can start anew." In spite of disaster, three weeks later, he invented the phonograph. What an attitude!

Sometimes, predictability and tradition please expectant guests rather than erratic invention and experiments that could fail. ALL INDIAN WEDDINGS HAVE several things in common: noise, food, music, and color. This is why Indians who live in America or any other part of the world go back home to get married. It would be hard to duplicate the color and happy chaos that surrounds an Indian wedding anywhere else in the world.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.