Quotes About Invention

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

Thoughts and ideas are the source of all wealth, success, material gain, all great discoveries, inventions and achievements

Ideas," Hagen said, "are shit. It's knowing what to do with an idea that matters.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

A German immigrant named Emile Berliner started to carve songs into seven-inch wax disks, and to make as many copies as needed from a single master recording, while the two biggest companies in the business—Edison and Columbia—raced each other to improve fidelity and to drive prices down enough to make the phonograph a middle-class vanity toy.

Y cantamos canciones que nos inventamos cuando dormimos y que dicen que si subes como la espuma te caerás desde las alturas.

even when the individual and societal benefits of changing a specific behavior are indisputable, we are geniuses at inventing reasons to avoid change. It is much easier, and more fun, to attack the strategy of the person who's trying to help than to try to solve the problem.

First we build the tools, then they build us.

The world's most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization.

But how do you tell someone your genius ex-boyfriend invented microscopic nanobots to retrieve wayward sperm? You don't.

Since the late 1840s settlers used close-planted Osage orange trees along the borders of their farms, creating, as the thorny wood filled in over some years of trimming, a living fence "horse-high, bull-strong and hog-tight." It was barbed wire in the days before barbed wire was invented.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell.

God invented space so that not everything had to happen in Princeton.

A reader is nice, and it's portable. It's a marvelous invention. Buying books for the paper is like buying beer for the bottles. It's what's inside that gets you drunk!

Therefore neither discipline nor other virtues which can be invented by the will, nor works taken upon oneself, no matter how difficult, merit forgiveness of sins or reconcile us with God, but only faith in the Son of God.

The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.

Muzica a fost inventat? pentru a compensa absen?a ploii.

In reality, all that is needed are a syringe and a few cubic centimeters of semen. Should current experiments with fertilizing eggs with DNA taken from other eggs be extended from mice to humans, soon we will not even need that. The fact that the necessary techniques were invented by men merely adds offense to injury. It is as if each time men try to help women along, men only make themselves more superfluous.

All the lessons of invention come down to this: The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

The hallmark of innovation is surprise. No surprise, nothing new. Nothing new, no interest. No interest, no value. Therefore, creating surprise is a crucial step in creating value through innovation.