Quotes About Invention

No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.

I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it.

A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

I'm in love. And I like how that feels. And I hate how that feels. Because love is an invention of fiction writers.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such.

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

I would just love to create a bunch of patents, I have a book of 50 right now.

Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion.

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

She's made me lots of costumes." Maybe "lots" was stretching the truth a bit.

And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?

It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect.

Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one about it for twenty-seven years5.

Among the words first found in Shakespeare are abstemious, antipathy, critical, frugal, dwindle, extract, horrid, vast, hereditary, critical, excellent, eventful, barefaced, assassination, lonely, leapfrog, indistinguishable, well-read, zany, and countless others (including countless).

It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis.

Hutton noticed that if he used a pencil to connect points of equal height, it all became much more orderly. Indeed, one could instantly get a sense of the overall shape and slope of the mountain. He had invented contour lines.

So Whitney's gin not only helped make many people rich on both sides of the Atlantic but also reinvigorated slavery, turned child labor into a necessity, and paved the way for the American Civil War. Perhaps at no other time in history has someone with a simple, well-meaning invention generated more general prosperity, personal disappointment, and inadvertent suffering than Eli Whitney with his gin.

It is right to give Thomas Edison the credit for much of this, so long as we remember that his genius was not in creating electric light, but in creating methods of producing and supplying it on a grand commercial scale, which was actually a much larger and far more challenging ambition. It was also a vastly more lucrative one.