Quotes About Invention

I'm an engineer. I'm a techie, really.

What I like best is sitting in a room together with really smart engineers thinking about a problem.

I like to think about the future and how things can be done better than they are now. That's what engineers do.

I think the character of a man is to establish something where no one else has ever done before.

The deaf don't believe in silence. Silence is the invention of the hearing.

The children are in love but do not know with what. They talk in gibberish, muse themselves into an indefinable pallor, and when they are completely at a loss they invent a language that maddens them. My fish. My hook. My fox. My snare. My fire. You my water. You my current. My earth. You my if. And you my but. Either. Or. My everything...my everything...They push one another, go for each other with their fists and scuffle over a counter-word that doesn't exist.

Breakthrough to Creativity.

It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills.

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did.

A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Isaac Newton

We'll invent new ways of being together.

One summer day, Eugenio Scalfari and I created an entire philosophical system: the philosophy of the élan vital . The next day we discovered that it had already been invented by Bergson.

P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty

Fiction writing is great, you can make up almost anything.

Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.

Armstrong's hydro-electric machine – to its visitors. This gargantuan piece of equipment could be used to mount a truly spectacular extravaganza of sparks and explosions. The press was duly primed to note its substantial dimensions, with a boiler 7.5ft long and 3.5ft in diameter, to produce steam; the steam then came gushing out of a series of nozzles to produce the electricity, which powered the whole contraption.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

It is not possible to be original except on a basis of tradition.

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

there is no question that there is an enormous range of technologies that are on the shelf. The problem is the gap between technological development, and diffusion and adoption. It is sobering to be reminded that the first hybrid was invented in 1901.