Quotes About Invention

What excites me the most is working on new projects.

Live shows have been going on for so long, can you really do something that's never been done before?

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

Fiction is just lying.

A Rube Goldberg machine is, in its essence, a trial-and-error thing.

Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value.

Mad science is my middle name.

Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

When I was 14 years old, I was crazy about Dr. Seuss. I loved the words he made up, and I just thought, 'Well, if he can make up words, then I can make up words.'

It's an important thing for children to be able to make up their own words.

I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.

I was always really creative and making up stuff.

Mankind invents things to fight about.

Derk was sick of falling backward into his trench, but he never had time to invent a different way of being killed.

When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.

For nearly sixty years I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist.

Para poder inventarme, antes que nada, debía disociarme.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

We have our self-importance. We also have our inadequacy. The former is a desperate invention of the latter.

Only shallow people insist on disbelief. You and I know better. We understand how reality is invented. A person sits in a room and thinks a thought and it bleeds out into the world. Every thought is permitted. And there's no longer a moral or spatial distinction between thinking and acting.

It takes centuries to invent the primitive.

It's how the news becomes so powerful it doesn't need TV or newspapers. It exists in people's perceptions. It's something they invent, strong enough to seem real. It's the news without the media.