Quotes About Invention

It's truly important that we uplift those who use their skills to develop technology and ideas that benefit our world.

During Women's History Month, we celebrate milestones in gender equality, and we uplift the stories of women who have impacted our world with their creativity, advocacy, service, invention, and discovery.

You can't be an inventor trying to figure a better way of changing the spare tire. That's boring. We need someone who figures out how to hit a button and turn the entire car upside down.

Before agriculture was invented, land was not a resource. Before oil drilling and nuclear fission were invented, petroleum and uranium were not resources.

'Recreative' is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don't like the way that 'recreational' sounds - I don't like to say I do a lot of 'recreational' reading. I like to say that I read 'recreatively.' I do a lot of 'recreative' reading.

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower.

We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I am proud that it has become for many synonymous with liberty.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way.

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy.

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.