Quotes About Invention

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.

It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I'm writing fiction, I must believe it to be true, or I can see no point in it.

She came up with a whole way of doing fluoroscopy, which is kind of like a live version of X-ray, so that she could see the heart as it worked, not frozen in a picture.

I started accessible GPS research in 1994 and the first version became available on a laptop in 2000.

Il pense donc que l'homme, sans aucun appui et sans aucun secours, est condamné à chaque instant à inventer l'homme.

Art was creating something new, not mimicking something already in existence. What

I wonder if life is still something I can make up.

But they were not in any meaningful sense religious, the Church of England being a political invention which had elevated being 'a good chap' to something akin to canonization.

Bit yells, Homeless Hungry? Dude, I invented Homeless Hungry. The kid just waves.

Why, as an adult, as a writer, am I interested in this new relationship with imperfection? What does it offer me? I would say a stunning clarity, a more profound self-awareness. Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

Direi una chiarezza sbalorditiva, una consapevolezza piú profonda di me stessa. L'imperfezione dà lo spunto all'invenzione, all'immaginazione, alla creatività. Stimola. Più mi sento imperfetta, più mi sento viva.

What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas.

Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines a new way of doing things. I think this point is fundamental.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.

I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.

I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.