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Quotes About Invention

UKIP's success would never have happened without the invention of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.
~ Nigel Farage
When I build for YouTube, there isn't necessarily an end goal. I have an idea of how I want a thing to work, but if it doesn't work that way, I can always adapt the story. The story is the main driver, not the machine.
~ Simone Giertz
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
~ Evelyn Waugh
America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.
~ Robert Pozen
We invented the Black Forest trifle. It's got all the flavours of the Black Forest Gateau but in a trifle, using chocolate custard. You've got your kirsch, your cherries, the chocolate custard, the sponge and the cream.
~ Dave Myers
Gérard Mourou, who was my PhD supervisor, dreamed up the idea of increasing laser intensity by orders of magnitude. He did it while he was on a ski trip with his family. He probably shouldn't have been thinking about lasers.
~ Donna Strickland
Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
~ Famke Janssen
We are a country of Newton, Hodgson, and Turing. Ours is a country of ideas, invention and discovery and is truly a national history.
~ Rishi Sunak
If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.
~ Jonathan Ive
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
~ Tom Shadyac
Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.
~ Howard Schultz
Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.
~ Richard Siken
So I created a tool for you to do just that. With the Mii Fighter creator you can have any character you want join the battle.
~ Masahiro Sakurai
The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.
~ Lindsay Wagner
It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.
~ Margaret Haddix
The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.
~ Scott Adams
All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.
~ William Zinsser
Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
~ Akio Morita
Humans want to create lots of cool stuff, then they want to see other people using that stuff. A lot.
~ Ben Chestnut
You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.
~ Maurice Sendak
Can you live without answers? All of you, ask that of yourself. Can you live without answers? Because if you cannot, then most assuredly you will invent your own answers and they will comfort you. And all those who do not share your view will by their very existence strike fear and hatred into your heart. What god blesses this?
~ Steven Erikson
Her worship was founded on denial, and in the absence of a true relationship with her goddess, she – like all those who had come before her – was free to invent every detail of that mock relationship.
~ Steven Erikson
Stay inside, please, and try not to break anything." "How can you call yourself an inventor if you dislike breaking things?
~ Steven Erikson
Famosity? There must be such a word. I used it!
~ Steven Erikson