Quotes About Invention

Accurst be he that first invented war.

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

A story is a wondrous invention.

People need new things to excite them, new inventions, new ideas, new art, new drugs, if there are no new things, then they resort to war

The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Ideas are the source of all things

Paying attention to what nourishes and stimulates your heart, soul, and imagination leads to listening to your instincts. In turn, listening to your instincts jump-starts the process of creating the fabric of your destiny. Like a designer sewing a garment, you take the vision within you and bring it to life in a suit to be worn for your next season of life. You are instinctively best at inventing what is in your inventory!

Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

Será que el tiempo es temperatura?». Si bien había pasado mucho desde entonces, de repente se sintió extrañado al enterarse de que ya se había inventado un reloj que, gracias a las diferencias de temperatura, no se detiene nunca y anda para siempre. Y más raro se sintió al pensar que esa máquina era más sensible que él.

Necessity, it turns out, isn't really the mother of invention; it's the mother of the process that turns an invention into a product, and in late-eighteenth-century Europe, that mother was ready.

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, and I ended up … making things that I think can change the world.

We need not be intimidated by the accomplishments of metahuman science. We should always remember that the technologies that made metahumans possible were originally invented by humans, and they were no smarter than we.

Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.

In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves.

I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively.

Novelty always sparks ideas.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

We're a very imaginative species; we're very good at creating fictions.

I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to learn to communicate in a very specific way - in a sort of a semiotic black market. You couldn't really say what you wanted to say; you had to invent ways of doing it. You didn't trust information very much.

Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.