Quotes About Invention

The writing system at the opposite extreme took the longest to emerge: the alphabet, one symbol for one minimal sound. The alphabet is the most reductive, the most subversive of all scripts. In all the languages of earth there is only one word for alphabet (alfabet, alfabeto, ). The alphabet was invented only once.

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.

I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.

You can get anything online, including things that don't even exist. We've invented our own collective unconscious. The normal rules of time and space don't apply. It's held together by some other force than gravity. It's endless. It's like some unimaginably huge, messy novel that's writing itself both with and without us.

What's maybe being underestimated is that in every country in the world, there is innovation.

There is always an underlying spirit of invention at Nike - we love to create something that has never before existed. And not just new for the sake of new - it has to be better.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

I don't know anybody in the underworld. I make this stuff up. I don't know any criminals.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

We -humans - are wizard who turn miracles into technology.

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.

Thinking Breeds Inventions and Innovations.

Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater.

To create something new, knowledge is essentially required, but not academic degree.

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.

I miss that thing I used to do when I first started out where I would just spontaneously generate ideas and try things and see where they'd go.