Quotes About Invention

Robert Goddard, the father of American rocket science,

This venture of Fourcade's and Navarre's was a rare phenomenon in France so early in the war. As the historian Julian Jackson observed, "The hackneyed phrase 'he or she joined the Resistance' is entirely inappropriate to 1940–41. Before it could be joined, resistance had to be invented….Resistance was a territory without maps.

However fierce the controversy surrounding its birth, the stored-program concept now ranks as one of the great ideas of the computer age—arguably the great idea.

William B. Shockley, coinventor of the transistor,

first personal computer—that was the LINC of Wes Clark

the integrated circuit itself; that honor goes to Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments, who demonstrated his first device in Dallas on September 19, 1958.

Lisp was John McCarthy's invention.

dropped the old name, Alto Aloha Network, in favor of a new phrase: the "ETHER Network." "If Ethernet was invented in any one memo, by any one person, or on any one day," says Metcalfe, "this was it.

windows"—a brainstorm that had hit Kay one day while he was in the shower, his favorite place to think.

There was this thread of ideas that led from Vannevar Bush through J. C. R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson, and Alan Kay

The Alto was certainly not the first personal computer; that honor has to go to Wes Clark's LINC, if not to Clark's TX-0, or even to Jay Forrester's Whirlwind. But it was the first machine that most of us would recognize as a personal computer.

PARC had given them something magical: an Alto-Ethernet—laser printer—GUI system that was like nothing else on the planet.

Babbage's Analytical Engine in the 1830s through ENIAC in the 1940s,

the creator of Lisp,

Reward does more than make us work more effectively together—it stimulates creativity too. Reward, not necessity, is the true mother of invention.

La invención, no la copia de la realidad, es la verdad del arte.

Deus, para a felicidade do homem, inventou a fé e o amor. O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento.

When I was a boy and everyone played at wrestling monsters like Heracles, I dreamed of being Daedalus instead. It seemed the greater genius to look at raw wood and iron, and imagine marvels.

And I'll tell you what a modern satyr is. He's someone who invents a woman on paper so that he can force her to say and do things no real woman in her right mind ever would.

hay tiempos que el lenguaje humano aún debe inventar.

So we dream on. Thus we invent our lives. We give ourselves a sainted mother, we make our father a hero; and someone's older brother and someone's older sister – they become our heroes too. We invent what we love and what we fear. There is always a brave lost brother – and a little lost sister, too. We dream on and on: the best hotel, the perfect family, the resort life. And our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them.

That's okay, I said. We're writers. We make things up.

According to my mother, I was a fiction writer before I'd written any ficton, by wich she meant not only that I invented things, or made things up, but that I prefered this kind of fantasising or pure imagining to what other people generally liked - she meant reality, of course.

Garp was a natural storyteller; he could make things up, one right after the other, and they seemed to fit. But what did they mean?