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Quotes About Invention

There are many colours of roses to be used in different situations, but there must be a colour invented that could turn an enemy directly into a friend when we would give it to.
~ Unknown
The jet is a great invention. Besides being a world shrinker, par excellence, it has much of the quality and charm of a roller coaster. And it's big. Once, years ago, on a ten-stop, cross-country air trip, I turned to the man next to me and said, quite genuinely: "What keeps these big goddam things up in the air?
~ Vincent Price
We embraced again, we wanted to engulf each other. We had cast off our families, the world, time, certainty. Clasping her against my gaping open heart, I wanted to draw Isabelle inside. Love is an exhausting invention. Isabelle, Thérèse, I pronounced in my head, getting used to the magical simplicity of our two names.
~ Violette Leduc
tu dormi dragostea mea. sînt singur am inventat poezia si nu mai am inima
~ Unknown
Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.
~ Virginia Woolf
Competition becomes transformed into monopoly. The result is immense progress in the socialisation of production. In particular, the process of technical invention and improvement becomes socialised.
~ Unknown
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
~ Voltaire
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or never inventors.
~ Voltaire
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
We were put on this earth to make things.
~ W.H. Auden
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
~ Bill Gates
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
~ Bill Gates
I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.
~ Steve Wozniak
If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.
~ Jef Raskin
The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas.
~ Alan Kay
On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.
~ Ken Olsen
Did you really invent the computer, or am I being pranked right now?
~ Steve Wozniak
Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.
~ Andre Kertesz
Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.
~ George Takei
Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens.
~ Max McKeown
The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place.
~ Baron Vaughn
The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.
~ Steven Brust
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
~ George Washington Carver
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson