Quotes About Invention

He replied that he wished he had thought of that, but hadn't. That started an exchange about the early history of Apple, and

Leonardo's interest in machinery was linked to his fascination with motion.

An invention, especially one as complex as the computer, usually comes not from an individual brainstorm but from a collaboratively woven tapestry of creativity.

Walter Isaacson

I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

Jobs had been referring to computers as a bicycle for the mind; the ability of humans to create a bicycle allowed them to move more efficiently than even a condor, and likewise the ability to create computers would multiply the efficiency of their minds.

atomic power, radar, and the Internet—were spawned by the military.

Some of the most important technologies of our era, such as the fracking techniques developed over the past six decades for extracting natural gas, came about because of countless small innovations as well as a few breakthrough leaps.

Dan Bricklin, who conceived the first financial spreadsheet program, VisiCalc.

caso de John Atanasoff, el olvidado inventor de Iowa, la concepción de la idea es solo el primer paso. Lo que importa realmente es la ejecución.

His plan incorporated the packet-switching concept of Paul Baran and Donald Davies, the suggestion for standardized IMPs proposed by Wes Clark, the theoretical insights of J. C. R. Licklider, Les Earnest, and Leonard Kleinrock, and the contributions of many other inventors.

innovación. Creo que los grandes artistas y los grandes ingenieros se parecen, porque ambos sienten el deseo de expresarse.

Don't worry about people stealing an idea," he once told a student. "If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Bueno, Steve, me parece que hay más de una forma de verlo. Yo diría más bien que es como si ambos tuviésemos un vecino rico llamado Xerox y, cuando yo me colé en su casa para robar el televisor, descubrí que ya te lo habías llevado tú.

His fingerprints are all over today's technologies. Photoelectric cells and lasers, nuclear power and fiber optics, space travel, and even semiconductors all trace back to his theories.

But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.

You make an invention you think is great, and so you want it to be used by many people as soon as possible.

He combined two types of lenses to create bifocals and two concepts of representation to foster the nation's federal compromise.

Future generations will figure out the details.

The governor of Pennsylvania was among the enthusiastic, and he offered Franklin what could have been a lucrative patent. "But I declined it," Franklin noted in his autobiography. "As we enjoy great advantages from the invention of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously." It was a noble and sincere sentiment.

What made the single-guide system particularly significant—from both a scientific and an intellectual property standpoint—was that it was an actual human-made invention, not merely a discovery of a natural phenomenon.

Advances fed on one another, occurring almost simultaneously and spontaneously, at Harvard and MIT and Princeton and Bell Labs and an apartment in Berlin and even, most improbably but interestingly, in a basement in Ames, Iowa.

tinker with a lot of contraptions. A few months after Franklin returned to Philadelphia, Dr. Spencer came

When highbrow critics accused Time of practicing personality journalism, Luce replied that Time did not invent the genre, the Bible did.