Quotes About Invention

The bicycle might just be the greatest of all inventions. It empowers the human machine, and with no input beyond perhaps a trendy isotonic health drink in a brightly coloured bottle at an inflated price.

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know the kind I'm talking about ... that stranger-than variety.

Each of us has the ability to create

Each of us has the ability to invent

An inventor is he whose thoughts and imagination become things of reality by creative action.

Stories are invented as you go along...

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

I make solutions that nobody wants to problems that don't exist.

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

The single greatest invention man ever conceived in the dollar bill, because I don't want to know the conversion rate for coconuts.

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

The Union of the Russian People helped invent a new style of right-wing politics—novel not just for Russia but for most of the world—a politics in a new key oriented toward the masses, public spaces, and direct action, a fascism avant la lettre.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

Ultimately, the only techniques that can help us are those we invent ourselves.

Everyone or almost all eventually evade reality and we invent what we need.

We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday.

Don't wait to think out of the box – create your own box.

Writing is a form of mischief.

Look, I made a hat... Where there never was a hat