Quotes About Invention

I like for things to happen, for stories to unfold. And if I can't find a good enough story, I make one.

If I can't find a good enough story, I make one.

Dan had begun working his way around the room starting at the food wall. "Here's a little wheel to twist" he said, and an instant later, "Genna, it has water in it. Good sweet water. And when you twist the wheel, it stops and starts." And a moment later, "A little room with a privy! But" echoing noises. "Oh," he said, sounding elated, "when you press a handle, water wahses the inside of the privy. You should see this!

I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!

Unlike other fields of medicine, Szasz claimed, psychiatry created new criteria for diagnosis of disease: alteration of bodily function instead of bodily form. Now doctors only need to observe behavior to diagnose, not find evidence of lesions or viruses. Therefore, in psychiatry, diseases are invented, not discovered

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

Muldoon referred to an invention that Menlo Parker was currently working on, designing a miniaturized portable radio-telephone which the Omega operatives could carry on their person at all times, and by which they could always get in touch with one another, and also tap into the public phone lines to contact the police, fire department, or ambulance. The invention was by no means yet perfected.

Poetry as an art form invites us to go beyond our preconceptions, to invent, to be truly imaginative. One reason for this is because that action, of going beyond ourselves, is an effect of the form itself: the poem is a structure which helps us to think differently, and one of the ways it does this is through its focus on imagery, encouraging us to think through our images in rational or irrational patterns.

Linda Buckley-Archer

Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever." Thomas Edison, 1889

Printer drivers are the most important things in the history of the world.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited.

This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'

The U.S. has always been a global innovation vanguard - driving advancements in computing, communication, and media to rail, automobiles, and aeronautics.

I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.

Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay, you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But in the theater, by inventing various characters, you can. My characters are contradictory not only in their language but in their behavior as well.

What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.