Quotes About Invention

The microprocessor is a miracle.

I've been working on the new Miracle Mop for many years.

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.

My personal mission has always been to empower people to be creative. But the Holy Grail of a tinkerer is to make something that makes something.

I loved playing with the mix of fantastical inventions and real ones. I hope kids will start logbooks to record their own creations.

My dad used to give me old electrical equipment that didn't work anymore, and I'd put things together. I think that's why I like to mix things that don't belong.

I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I guess that's my favorite book. 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' even though I didn't read it, that's the greatest story. SparkNotes came in when I was in high school, and that was the greatest invention.

Although my early equipment was very modest, later I made my own and they were more powerful.

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

The rich don't work for money - the rich invent money.

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

Every two years, to keep Moore's Law happening, you have to invent... That's where I grew up.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

'MacGruber' came to life mostly because we just liked saying 'MacGyver.' 'MacGyver' this. 'MacGyver' that. It's a great word.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

In 1775, Cumming patented the S-bend. This became the missing ingredient to create the flushing toilet—and, with it, public sanitation as we know it. Flushing toilets had previously foundered on the problem of smell: the pipe that connects the toilet to the sewer, allowing urine and feces to be flushed away, will also let sewer odors waft back up—unless you can create some kind of airtight seal.

wanted to build a toaster from scratch. He started by taking apart a

And, second, with any new invention, it makes sense to at least ask ourselves how we might maximise the benefits and mitigate the risks.

Intellectual property has profoundly shaped who makes money in the modern world.

This book isn't an attempt to identify the fifty most economically significant inventions. It's not a book-length listicle, with a countdown to the most important invention of all. Indeed, some that would be no-brainers on any such list haven't made the cut: the printing press, the spinning jenny, the steam engine, the airplane, and the computer.

It occurred to me that the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories that might otherwise have ended in paralysis or worse. By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, like the night in the shit field, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.