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Quotes About Invention

Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.
~ Neil Gershenfeld
Good designers copy; great designers steal.
~ Pablo Picasso
It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.
~ Unknown
I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.
~ Mikhail Kalashnikov
But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.
~ Niklaus Wirth
Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.
~ Tim Brown
Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
~ Ralph Lauren
Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.
~ Paola Antonelli
I was always pretty good at designing things.
~ Yves Rossy
Yaz?l?m konusunda iddial? insanlar kendi donan?mlar?n? yapmal?lar.
~ Alan Kay
I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.
~ Neil Young
If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.
~ Jonathan Ive
The school at which you studied - design school, disruptive school, TRIZ school, user-centered innovation school, etc - determines the specific words you use.
~ Scott D. Anthony
When the creative spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new ways of doing things, to bring dreams to reality.
~ Paul A. Kaufman
The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.
~ John Doolittle
If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.
~ Don DeLillo
Philosophers think, creators make!
~ Stephen Richards
New facts often trigger new ideas
~ T.L. Osborn
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
~ Eric Hoffer
The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.
~ Albert Einstein
Creativity stands at the center of all education.
~ Bruno Bettelheim
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don't need to worry about me; I have a college education. I'm not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.
~ Jon Krakauer
A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.
~ George Polya