Quotes About Invention

The only thing that was in my mind when we made that first phone call was, 'Is it going to work?' We had all these parts hand soldered together, engineers standing by with the soldering iron - just in case.

When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.

I like to think of Photography 1.0 as the invention of photography. Photography 2.0 is digital technology and the move from film and paper to everything on a chip. Photography 3.0 is the use of the camera, space, and color and to capture an object in the third dimension.

Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from scratch.

It never occurred to me that there were so many wonderful photos that had been orphaned and were out there in the world, waiting to be found. Over time, I found a lot of very strange pictures of kids, and I wanted to know who they were, what their stories were. Since the photos had no context, I decided I needed to make it up.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

I felt that the Fed had always been the agency that picked up the pieces when there was a financial crisis, and it was invented to do exactly that.

My grandfather was an engineer who invented the automatic pilot for airplanes.

Google was the right place to pioneer robot cars.

I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator.

I might be eating something, and the bag opens in a cool way, and I'm like, 'I wanna put that in the song.'

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution.

I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's imagined what it would be like to go back in time and change things, to see what would happen if you had a different life. 'Back to the Future' fulfills all of those daydreams. It's the perfect movie.

Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles' medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.

Each time I invent something and have it manufactured, it's so incredibly exciting that I can't imagine ever wanting to stop. Envisioning new products is easy for me. I just don't have enough time in the day to design them all.

As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that I invented, and the laptop architecture that I co-invented, for their new laptops, cell phones, and other devices.

Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on the road of innovation.

Shoes are a great invention. They keep us from stepping on nails. Your feet stay clean and warm and dry.

It's during wartime that innovations happen.

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

I haven't had cotton candy in forever," he said. "I'd forgotten how…sugary it is." "It's pure sugar." "I wonder who invented it." "I think it was a dentist." He laughed, a laugh that revealed his perfect smile, his perfect teeth. "I'll bet you're right.