Quotes About Invention

I think I've kind of carved out a sweet spot for myself by combining science and comedy.

I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions.

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.

I invented the historical spy novel.

When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.

You've got to remember even the Apple regeneration started with colorful iMacs. So let us first get the colorful iMacs. I think with what we're doing with Lumia, we're at that stage. I want to do good devices that people like, and then we will go on to doing the next thing and the next thing.

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name.

The Internet is a good way to try some stuff with no big crew and no money being spent. Since there are no stakes to it, you can try to be a little experimental.

Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy.

If we are indeed nostalgic for the weight of clock time, it is worth remembering that the standardized time that most of us know has only been around since the mid-nineteenth century. It was invented for the railroads.

I couldn't have invented crisps. ... I don't really want to be known as the man who invented crisps. ... I invented apples. ... I invented pandas, and caps. I invented soil.

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

What one man can invent, another can discover.

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.

The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization