Quotes About Invention

In 1892, mine owner L. L. Nunn had hired the electrical wizard Nikola Tesla to build the world's first alternating-current power

induction motor, radio control, wireless communications, spark plugs. It was said that his ideas and inventions came to him fully formed in a flash of inspiration.

Rami often felt that there were nine or ten Israelis inside him, fighting. The conflicted one. The shamed one. The enamored one. The bereaved one. The one who marveled at the blimp's invention. The one who knew the blimp was watching. The one watching back. The one who wanted to be watched. The anarchist. The protester. The one sick and tired of all the seeing.

The Checkered Game of Life was a real game, invented by a young draftsman named Milton Bradley in 1860. Checkered referred both to the board, which was patterned like a checkerboard, and also to the checkered way life sometimes goes. No dice were included because of their connection to gambling and because

Well, I've had my fun; I've had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his fun, for it was half made up, as he knew very well; invented, this escapade with the girl; made up, as one makes up the better part of life, he thought—making onself up; making her up; creating an exquisite amusement, and something more. But odd it was, and quite true; all this one could never share—it smashed to atoms.

He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out.

I always have such need to merely talk to you. Even when I have nothing to talk about – with you I just seem to go right ahead and sort of invent it. I invent it for you. Because I never seem to run out of tenderness for you and because I need to feel you near. Excuse the bad writing and excuse the emotional overflow. What I mean to say, perhaps, is that, in a way, I am never empty of you; not for a moment, an instant, a single second.

Chastity may be a fetish invented by certain societies for unknown reasons.

made up, as one makes up the better part of life...making oneself up; ...creating an exquisite amusement...

One must, one always must, do something or other; it is not allowed one simply to enjoy oneself. Was it not for this reason that, some time ago, we fabricated the excuse, and invented the necessity of buying something? But what was it? Ah, we remember, it was a pencil. Let us go then and buy this pencil.

for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both truth and art.

Knight seemed to him to be constantly playing some game of his own invention, without telling his partners its rules.

For the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented.

As it happens with many people who do not trouble about religion in the ordinary trend of life, I hastily invented a soft, warm, tear-misty God, and whispered an informal prayer. Let me get there in time, let him hold out till I come, let him tell me his secret. Now it was all snow: the glass had grown a grey beard.

The muse of invention handed me a rifle and I shot a white bear who sat down and said: Ah.

specula?ia filosofic? este inven?ia bog?ta?ilor. Jos cu ea!

Il était malin, celui qui a inventé ce truc-là

Como suele ocurrir con muchas personas que no se preocupan por la religión en su vida habitual, inventé rápidamente un Dios suave, tierno, lacrimoso, y susurré una plegaria personal. Permíteme llegar a tiempo, permítele resistir hasta que llegue, permítele decirme su secreto.

The cost and risk of developing an innovative idea are borne by the initiator, not the follower.

No bra," he said against her mouth. "Thank you. I hate those things. Dumbest human invention. Ever.

No religion wants us. We're going to have to invent our own.

Get out of here," Tom said to the two Berserkers. "He doesn't understand!" "This is all wrong!" said Ron, pressing his bleeding mouth with his hand. "Everybody knows homophobia was invented by the Christians!" "Then you can have the comfort," said Jorgen with a smile, "of knowing you're not the victim of a hate crime.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.