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Quotes About Invention

Les femmes," generalized Poirot. "They are marvellous! They invent haphazard—and by miracle they are right. Not that it is that, really. Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together—and they call the result intuition. Me, I am very skilled in psychology. I know these things.
~ Agatha Christie
Les femmes," generalized Poirot. "They are marvelous! They invent haphazard—and by miracle they are right. Not that it is that, really. Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together—and they call the result intuition. Me, I am very skilled in psychology. I know these things.
~ Agatha Christie
Il y a encore une mer à traverser oh encore une mer à traverser pour que j'invente mes poumons pour que le prince se taise pour que la reine me baise encore un vieillard à assassiner un fou à délivrer pour que mon âme luise aboie luise aboie aboie aboie et que hulule la chouette mon bel ange curieux.
~ Aimé Césaire
Man has invented Google, through which anything we can find, but have YOU ever wondered, who Created the Mind?
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
Man is a genius when he is dreaming.
~ Akira Kurosawa
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight
~ Al Boliska
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
~ Al Gore
Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.
~ Al Jardine
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
~ Alain Badiou
It is better to do nothing than to contribute to the invention of formal ways of rendering visible that which Empire already recognizes as existent.
~ Alain Badiou
As man has managed to turn himself into a player of the world, the sole thing that can now prevent him from using all his possibilities of playing, is to make him believe that he did not invent the rules of the game.
~ Alain de Benoist
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.
~ Alan Alda
The more I learn, the more I am convinced that there are no original stories. On several occasions I have "invented" an incident, and then come across it in an obscure fragment of Hebridean lore, orally collected, and privately printed, a hundred years ago.
~ Alan Garner
America's share of the world's patents has increased from 10 percent when Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 to 20 percent today.
~ Alan Greenspan
and after a Natchez slave fabricated an improved cotton gin based upon a description by his owner, who had seen Eli Whitney's invention, many planters
~ Alan Huffman
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
~ Alan Kay
Technology is anything invented after you were born.
~ Alan Kay
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
~ Alan Kay
Television is the last technology we should be allowed to invent and put out without a surgeon general's warning.
~ Alan Kay
You know what Lily Tomlin once said?" Sirius pretended to be interested in what Lily and I had to say. " 'I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
~ Alan Russell
Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth-century invention.
~ Alasdair MacIntyre
He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.
~ William Daniels
Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena.
~ Cornelia Parker
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
~ Octavio Paz