Quotes About Invention

Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage.

My dad invented road rage. He wasn't the first guy to get mad in the car, but he was first guy to get mad enough to make the paper.

Even though I'm proud by dad invented the rear-view mirror, we're not as close as we appear.

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet.

Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

The most enviable genius in literary history is the guy who invented alphabet soup: nobody knows who he is.

Evil's greatest triumph may be its success in portraying religion as an enemy of pleasure when, in fact, religion accounts for its source: every good and enjoyable thing is the invention of a Creator who lavished gifts on the world.

Rien ne vaut la peine d'être trouvé que ce qui n'a jamais existé encore.

He was a wise man who invented God.

Ideas are the source of all things

the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

yet the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him.

they should invent a car that stays cool inside when it is parked

Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker, he told her. My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp spray. Oh. You get me the nicest things. Anybody can get jewelry. Posers

Any fool can kill. It takes genius to create.

Aristotle might have walked here, he thought. Might have scratched out that first copy of On Sphere Making, sitting at a table right over there.

Whoever invented adding melted cheese over starchy goodness was surely the most brilliant human ever.

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but it is also the grandmother of desperation.

What do you not have to do in order to produce a new sound?

How many 'inventions' are really memories, of the things we once knew?

My books aren't autobiographical.

I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.