Quotes About Invention

Making an elixir out of coffee beans was probably invented in Ethiopia, where the plant is endemic. From there, beans, still in their skins, mixed with animal fat, were traded to Yemen, right across the Red Sea from Ethiopia.

Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.

all 'people of one blood' who made homeplace in isolated landscapes where they could invent themselves, where they could savor a taste of freedom.

If from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute.

Yakov," said Shmuel, "He invented light. He created the world. He made us both. The true miracle is belief. I believe in Him. Job said, 'Though he slay me, yet will I trust in Him.' He said more but that's enough." "To win a lousy bet with the devil he killed off all the servants and innocent children of Job. For that alone I hate him, not to mention ten thousand pogroms. Ach, why do you make me talk fairy tales? Job is an invention and so is God.

Manche Menschen sehen die Dinge, wie sie sind, und fragen: Warum? Ich träume von Dingen, die es noch nie gegeben hat, und frage: "Warum nicht?

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

Descartes (1596-1650), the founder of modern philosophy, invented a method which may still be used with profit--the method of systematic doubt.

El impulso hacia las empresas personales debe dirigirse hacia cosas tales como la creación artística, los descubrimientos científicos o la creación de instituciones útiles; en una palabra, en actividades que son creativas más bien que posesivas.

Israel now has a reputation around the world of being not just a place to develop products and technology but to develop ideas.

Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.

The unique thing about Stratolaunch - one of the unique things - is it doesn't require a fixed launchpad.

As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is required for licensing. Instead, I work with invention, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and clinical application of artificial hearts.

The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.

Lots of people are saying that I shut down mumble rap in one 10-minute setting. But that wasn't my intention, because mumble rap - if we go back - that's something I invented.

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

I've always been motivated to innovate where the implications are significant.

Philiosophers like Hume and Descartes and Hobbes saw things similarly. They thought that mental images and ideas were actually the same thing. There are those today that dispute that, and lots of debates about how the mind works, but for me it's simple: Mental images, for most of us, are central in inventive and creative thinking.

My argument is that there is already an automated machine to make pads. What I did - I reverse-engineered it to 'simple.' Anyone who wants to compete will have to come out with a simpler machine.

'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.

I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's greener simply because this is a continuum of change, improvement and discovery.

THE HUMAN CONDITION The Daily Show reported recently that scientists in Japan had invented a robot that is capable of recognizing its own reflection in a mirror. When the robot learns to hate what it sees, said Jon Stewart, it will have achieved full humanity.

I once worked as a writer for a big New York ad agency. Our boss used to tell us: Invent a disease. Come up with the disease, he said, and we can sell the cure. Attention Deficit Disorder, Seasonal Affect Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder. These aren't diseases, they're marketing ploys. Doctors didn't discover them, copywriters did. Marketing departments did. Drug companies did. Depression and anxiety may be real. But they can also be Resistance.