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Quotes About Invention

Felicity's voice came dark and sinister. "Bring me the head of Nikola Tesla.
~ Susan Griffith
He was charming, funny, dimpled, daring. He could talk anyone into anything. He had a gift for drama and invention. He was a storyteller, a yarn-spinner, and an agile liar; he was good at fancying up facts to make his life seem less plain and mingy.
~ Susan Orlean
A college boy from Massachusetts named Eli Whitney came south... Eli liked machines, and he liked solving problems.
~ Susan Wise Bauer
His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.
~ Suzanne Collins
Everybody right now, they look at the current technology, and they think, 'OK, that's what artificial neural nets are.' And they don't realize how arbitrary it is. We just made it up! And there's no reason why we shouldn't make up something else.
~ Geoffrey Hinton
I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.
~ Ne-Yo
You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
~ Jackson Browne
I want people to say that I'm something new, something different. Something they've never seen before.
~ Trae Young
If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.
~ Steve Lacy
If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
~ Haruki Murakami
You can't just be a rock star by rehashing things you've seen or done before. Bring something new, which is what hip-hop does best.
~ John Gourley
When technology is ready for something novel, when the components needed to build something new become affordable, it is going to be done by someone and more likely by several people.
~ Ralph H. Baer
Gamers both demand and deserve novelty. They need something new. As a game developer, one of my rules is there will be at least one thing in every game that I worked on that no one on the planet has seen before.
~ Warren Spector
I will always do something new.
~ Trippie Redd
I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.
~ Sylvia Robinson
Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.
~ Adam Lambert
I didn't want to make a game unless I felt in the position to make something new and different.
~ Shaun White
In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.
~ Phil Everly
I'm always game for creating a new character, and I liked the idea of putting something new into the 'Halo' universe.
~ Mike Colter
It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.
~ Sam Altman
I'm always looking to make something that didn't exist before, fumbling about in the dark, not just while making a collection. The search for something new is a constant in my everyday life. But constantly searching for something new is like looking for a well in a desert.
~ Rei Kawakubo
What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.
~ Bre Pettis
It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.
~ Rivers Cuomo
I realized I had something new to say, something that wasn't already out there.
~ Joseph Abboud