Quotes About Invention

I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy.

Writing is like running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

Do you know your particular fears? And what do you usually do with them? You run away from them, don't you, or invent ideas and images to cover them? But to run away from fear is only to increase it.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

They should invent a snooze button that hits back.

Swann immediately recognized this statement as one of those fragments of true fact with which liars, when caught unprepared, console themselves by introducing into the composition of the falsehood they are inventing,

in spite of having witnessed the birth of the telephone they decline to believe in the aeroplane.

Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

each followed such a profession as was most proper for the nature of their Species, which the Empress encouraged them in, especially those that had applied themselves to the study of several Arts and Sciences; for they were as ingenious and witty in the invention of profitable and useful Arts, as we are in our world, nay, more; and to that end she erected Schools, and founded several Societies.

Margaret Frith

Histories of the Kennedy Space Center acknowledge without exaggeration that the obstacle posed by the mosquitoes was so serious that NASA quite literally could not have put a man on the moon by Kennedy's "before the decade is out" deadline without the invention of DDT. In this way, the challenges of spaceflight reveal themselves to be distinctly terrestrial.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.

What more do I need? I don't know how my book will end. All I know is that love is not the modern invention of rebellious young girls. Love is ancient. A legend. The truth.

When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.