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Quotes About Invention

I suppose that romantic love was invented as a brilliant means of seduction.
~ Sigmund Freud
part of what is needed is a theory not only of how we invent, but why we invent. Recall that Edison was inventing for the pure pleasure of inventing. He worked on many of his inventions, not to meet an unmet need, but just to see what happens and what's possible. The Systemizing Mechanism is what drives curiosity.
~ Simon Baron-Cohen
First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers
~ Simon R. Green
Steal from the best, and call it research!
~ Simon R. Green
Dreams were invented by Angels to test out their beta programs.
~ Simon Rich
Me sonríe lentamente con una sonrisa que probablemente haya inventado para derretir los corazones de todas las chicas del planeta -Brit
~ Simone Elkeles
But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write.
~ Sir Philip Sidney
New York City is the place where people come to invent, reinvent, or find the room they need to be who they wish to be.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I mean that you've invented the story yourself. It belong to you, not me. You've already chosen an ending, a way out. I suppose it's inevitable that you want satisfaction.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I imagined Stephen's companion was a beautiful woman. Her form and coloring changed with my moving thoughts, but the idea that she existed remained to nag at me, and even though she was only a spook of my jealousy, I couldn't stop the surge of fantasies about her and Stephen. By the time I left the library, I had invented several elaborate plots involving the two of them.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.
~ Josh Billings
It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Honestly, we'll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.
~ Tim Cook
In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music - all with love. In other words, create a magic world.
~ Valerie Solanas
I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.
~ Lil Wayne
The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.
~ Nicole Krauss
I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.
~ William John Locke
Without imagination, there's no power to visualize what we have never experienced... and without that, there can be no progress, no invention.
~ Max Allan Collins
the other?" I tried using the new whatchamacallit
~ Max Brooks
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~ Max Frisch
We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.
~ Maya Angelou
Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen. We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.
~ Maya Angelou
The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.
~ Megan McCafferty