Quotes About Invention

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.

Charles was at this time very fond of inventing games for the amusement of his brothers and sisters;

I know it's true because I made it up myself.

You gotta imagine what's never been

Still, I couldn't let the matter go entirely—T. Ray thinking I was so desperate I would invent an invasion of bees to get attention. Which is how I got the bright idea of catching a jar of these bees, presenting them to T. Ray, and saying, "Now who's making things up?

In writing The Invention of Wings, I was inspired by the words of Professor Julius Lester, which I kept propped on my desk: "History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own." ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My deepest thanks to . . .

Hardly anyone knew what country had first landed men on the moon, despite the fact that they were science and technology majors. Asked what year computers had been invented, most had no idea; it was only after much consultation that one team ventured a guess: 1870.

having tried and failed to invent a better future for himself, in the end he invented a better past"178

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. —John Berger, English art critic

The "cookie" marked the beginning of this shift. Ultimately it would do more to shape advertising—and social attention—on the Web than any other invention apart from the browser itself.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

the laboratories established by German pharmaceutical and dye manufacturers in the 1880s and 1890s as the first truly institutionalized research laboratories, and to General Electric's 1900 laboratory as the pioneer in America.17

I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play

Really, I protest--what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.

What's your dad do? I said. Designs new and better wings for new and better sing nuts, he said proudly. It sounded like he was repeating something a sarcastic adult had said.

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Accidents. It was all about accidents. No scientist would admit to it, of course, but most great invention occurred while one was attempting to solve some other problem entirely

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

I believe in a company that combines service and product offerings which are a bit different from other industries.

I came up with the Enveloper when I was 20 and it took my dad and me several months to develop the initial concept into a working model.

I just want to innovate.

It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design.