Quotes About Invention

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world.

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

I strapped an MP3 player to one of those floor-cleaning robots. Call him DJ Roomba - little guy cruises around and plays music. What's hot, DJ Roomba!

You can't really imagine music without technology.

The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)

This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.

What is man if the signs that predate him have such power? A human race has to invent sacrifices equal to the natural cataclysmic order that surrounds it.

It is a characteristic of human beings that if they haven't got a family of their own, they will invent one.

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.