Quotes About Invention

A writer's obligation is to invent: to go beyond what did happen and to look at what could have happened but didn't. Fiction writers are born liars.

Observing is really the fuel to innovating, ultimately.

I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.

The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

life is other, always there, further off, beyond you and beyond me, always on the horizon, life which unlives us and makes us strangers, that invents our face and wears it away

Mas enquanto vivemos não podemos escapar das máscaras nem dos nomes e pronomes: somos inseparáveis das nossas ficções- das nossas facções. Estamos condenados a inventar uma máscara e a descobrir, depois, que essa máscara é nosso verdadeiro rosto.

In my view most authors do not write to reflect reality but to invent a second world with a complicated set of rules - the more complicated the better. Though this second world is derived from the first, it is somehow more meaningful, more satisfying than the real world.

Lo que importa no es tanto lo que haces con tus manos como lo que haces con tu mente. Todo lo que se ha logrado por la mano o el cerebro del hombre, nació en la mente.

As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons, giving brith to genius. The one who invents the wheel. And light. And flight. The one who builds a city, a nation, an empire...I'll put it bluntly. Human beings are free excpet when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me - to find out what you're good for.

As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generations, giving birth to genius. The one who invents the wheel. And light. And flight. The one who builds a city, a nation, an empire.

See these protrusions here, here, and here. That's tech.

Todo es una ficción, de todas formas. Hacemos lo que hacemos y luego inventamos las razones, pero nunca son las razones verdaderas. La verdad está siempre fuera de nuestro alcance.

You think—I dare say that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it We're destroying words—scores of them hundreds of them every day. It's a beautiful thing the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms there are also the antonyms.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

Are you making something up in your head, miss?" —FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT, A Little Princess Zener

Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak. Historical law subverts it at every turn. A moral view can never be proven right or wrong by any ultimate test. A man falling dead in a duel is not thought thereby to be proven in error as to his views. His very involvement in such a trial gives evidence of a new and broader view.

Evoca las formas. Cuando no tengas nada más inventa ceremonias e infúndeles vida.

Anything invented before you were eighteen was there all along. Anything invented before you're thirty is exciting and will change the world forever. Anything invented after that is an abomination and should be banned.

Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.