Quotes About Invention

A big idea comes along at just the moment when the technology exists to implement it.

Bob Metcalfe created a way to use coaxial cable (the type that plugs into cable TV boxes) to create a high-bandwidth system that he named "Ethernet.

During one maddening session, Kay, whose thoughts often seemed tailored to go directly from his tongue to wikiquotes, shot back a line that was to become PARC's creed: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."60

the greatest innovation would come not from the people who created the breakthroughs but from the people who applied them usefully.

El día en que presentó el Macintosh, un periodista de Popular Science le preguntó a Jobs qué tipo de investigación de mercados había llevado a cabo. A lo cual Jobs respondió, burlón: «¿Acaso Alexander Graham Bell realizó un estudio de mercado antes de inventar el teléfono?».

Ethernet, the technologies developed by Bob Metcalfe

The GUI was made possible by bitmapping, another innovation pioneered at Xerox PARC.

Jobs quoted Picasso: "Good artists copy, great artists steal." He added, "And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

the importance of spawning new

Walter Isaacson

Though human ingenuity may make various inventions," he wrote, "it will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple, more direct than does Nature; because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

If you wish to make an imaginary animal invented by you appear natural, let us say a dragon, take for the head that of a mastiff or hound, for the eyes a cat, and for the ears a porcupine, and for the nose a greyhound, and the brows of a lion, the temple of an old cock, the neck of a terrapin.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything

wanted to build a frequency counter when he was twelve, and he was able to look up Bill

The idea of a personal computer, one that ordinary individuals could get their hands on and take home, was envisioned in 1945 by Vannevar Bush.

When we ascribe credit for an invention, determining who should be most noted by history, one criterion is looking at whose contributions turned out to have the most influence.

Engelbart showed, back in 1968, nearly everything that a networked personal computer does today.

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention." For Steve Jobs, the ascent to the brightest heaven

create a new standard takes not just making something that's a little bit different, it takes something that's really new and captures people's imagination.

He didn't invent many things outright, but he was a master at putting together ideas, art, and technology in ways that invented the future. He

Invention implies contributing something to the flow of history and affecting how an innovation developed.

The invention of CRISPR and the plague of COVID will hasten our transition to the third great revolution of modern times. These revolutions

That's a big thing with an invention," Eckert later said, contrasting their machine with Atanasoff's. "You have to have a whole system that works.

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