Quotes About Invention

Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been. —THEODORE VON KÁRMÁN

It was the invention in the music that was so striking —the will to create what had never been heard before, through vocal tricks, rhythmic shifts, pieces of sound that didn't logically follow one from the other, that didn't make musical or even emotional sense when looked at as pieces, but as a whole spoke a new language.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

Language is mankind's greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

Language is mankind's greatest inventiom… that it was never invented.

You know, if you're Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions, people on the Internet would say: 'I could have done that in half an hour, and it's been done before. What's the big deal? I expected something more from him.' Meanwhile, they didn't do it, right? They're still living at home with their mothers.

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.

Las nuevas naciones hispanoamericanas, además, confundieron la política con la historia. Para fortalecer su ruptura política con España fueron a buscar su identidad histórica fuera del orbe hispánico, en las raíces indígenas, en la autoctonía criolla y en la invención de un pasado clásico americano. Tuvieron con su raíz española un pleito de negaciones simbólicas que nos confunde todavía.

I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of songs. Time and again I, too, have felt so full of luminous torrents that I could burst-burst with forms much more beautiful than those which are put up in frames and sold for a stinking fortune. And I, too, said nothing, showed nothing; I didn't open my mouth, I didn't repaint my half of the world. I was ashamed. I was afraid, and I swallowed my shame and my fear. I said to myself: You are mad!

I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of songs

So in 1910 a Danish botanist, Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene.

Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene.

It is fitting that history attached Morse's name to his code, more than to his device.

The code became known as the dot-and-dash alphabet, but the unmentioned space remained just as important; Morse code was not a binary language.*) That

So by 1880, four years after Bell conveyed the words "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you," and three years after the first pair of telephones rented for twenty dollars, more than sixty thousand telephones were in use in the United States.

Rivers had assumed this person was a fantasy, someone the twins had merely dreamt about or invented, but no, Josh had insisted he was real-real and living in Scotland.

She asked me why I never came, said she had heard all sorts of stories about me. This was only to gain time. Asked me, was I writing poems? About whom? I asked her. This confused her more and I felt sorry and mean. Turned off that valve at once and opened the spiritual-heroic refrigerating apparatus, invented and patented in all countries by Dante Alighieri...

Couldn't they invent something automatic so that the wheel itself much handier? Well but that fellow would lose his job then? Well but then another fellow would get a job making the new invention?

El calendario de la fama Adiós, adiós, mis amadas manos dijo Rachmaninov en su lecho de muerte y Joseph Hofmann, el gran pianista, inventó el limpiaparabrisas de observar su metrónomo Genio que soy, que lo único que puedo hacer es marcar las teclas equivocadas en mi máquina de escribir

I'm pretty sure dodgeball was invented by some gym teacher who hated kids and just wanted an excuse to throw things at them.

Suits are malevolent magicians' sleeves for socialists, full of patrician loops and tricks, small, embroidered, cryptic messages of deference and privilege. They are ever the uniform of the enemy. They are also the greatest British invention ever.

Competition and competitive rhetoric can be healthy. It's what drove the United States to pursue the Soviet Union into space, creating countless innovations along the way.

It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.