Quotes About Invention

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

I have no doubt that my origin and ethnicity have strongly influenced controversy over my invention of email.

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

'Padman' was about my early life and struggles, including my wife calling me a psycho and leaving me.

Our objective is always to do something that hasn't been done before, but the opponent has a lot of say over how that works out.

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.

Originality is dangerous.

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention.

The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.

We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions 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.

You know, when you look carefully at stuff that you deal with everyday, applying a little creativity to it and thinking outside the box, it's amazing what you can do.

The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Watson recorded that he "could unmistakably hear the tones of [Bell's] voice and almost catch a word now and then.

Mr. Watson—Come here" joined "What hath God wrought" in immortality

Later that evening, Alexander Graham Bell wrote to his father, "I feel that I have at last found the solution of a great problem and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid on to houses just like water and gas is, and friends will converse with each other without leaving home.

42.9% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

But precisely because history is not foreordained, we mere mortals must invent it as we go along—and in circumstances, as old Marx rightly pointed out, not entirely of our own making. We shall have to ask the perennial questions again, but be open to different answers.

As long as we can control our creations, though, truly enormous life-changing advantages will result.

La fobia es un pretexto que se ha inventado el organismo para ocultar un terror verdadero, justificado, pero que la mente se empeña en ignorar.