Quotes About Invention

He who cares to go to the trouble of demonstrating the uselessness of index numbers for monetary theory and the concrete tasks of monetary policy will be able to select a good proportion of his weapons from the writings of the very men who invented them.

I pick up a pen and start to unscrew the whole thing, pull out the skinny little tube of blue ink. It would be so cool to have one of these built inside you, like a squid; you could point your finger and leave your mark on anything you wanted.

When we were little, Eric and Fitz and I invented a language. I've forgotten most of it, with the exception of a few words: valyango, which meant pirate; palapala, which meant rain; and ruskifer, which had no translation to English but described the dimpled bottom of a woven basket, all the reeds coming together to form one joint spot, and that we sometimes used to explain our friendship.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.' – VOLTAIRE, FOR AND AGAINST

Why have I not genius to start some new thought? Some thing that will surprise the world?

The tea-bag is a vile invention suggestive to my perhaps overly squeamish eye of something a careless person might leave behind unflushed in the lavatory.

Whitney had carefully kept the cotton gin under wraps while he applied for a patent, but he made a tactical error when he allowed women to have a look at it

I blame Steve Jobs. And that Zuckerberg fellow. All those clever little psychopaths who couldn't get laid in high school but make up for their sexual inadequacy by inventing technology that destroys humanity. They're the Oppenheimers of the twenty-first century.

If you ask me,' she adds, pointing towards the book in her husband's lap, the stern visage of its subject, Alexander Graham Bell, staring back at her, 'that fucker has a lot to answer for.

The hero is the one with ideas.

Creativity is being able to see what everybody else has seen and think what nobody else has thought so you can do what nobody else has done.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

Another historical peculiarity of the place was the fact that its large mansions, those relics of another time, had not been reconstructed to serve as nursing homes for that vast population of comatose and the dying who were kept alive, unconscionably, through trailblazing medical invention.

All inventions,' he thought, 'come from man's brains. And man's soul can escape from them, and even while using them, treat them with contempt – treat them as if they were not! It

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.

Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.

Do not seek to change what has come before. Seek to create that which has not

Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.