Quotes About Invention

Historical invention works through a matrix of open and unfinished significations presented by the present. Like the touch of a sleepwalker, it touches in things only what they have in them that belongs to the future.

Discoveries' in philosophy are always at the same time inventions...Truth is not ready-made in things, and yet, by a 'retrograde movement,' it presents itself to us as existing prior to our act of knowledge. We encounter reality: that is the cause and effect of the knowledge we have of it. This circle is the definition of history, and it is up to the philosopher to learn to live with it.

It is only afterwards, once human invention has reintegrated them in the meaning of the totality, that the hazards of history can appear to be and are in fact rational without there being any place for the assumption of a hidden reason which orients them through the "ruse" of appearing in the guise of contingency.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.

Male novelists made up words in their fiction: "phallomaterialism"; "ero-tectonics.

The Toad Pee Club had taken one small step for toadkind and one giant leapfrog for humankind.

But it's the temptation of so many suburban-raised children to invent tales of adversity, to create hardscrabble mythologies out of life histories marked by little more than field hockey games and orthodontist appointments.

An idea can be greater than the Sun, because with an intelligent idea, man can discover the way to create another sun! Idea is the greatest power in this universe!

Birds are not free since Men have invented cages.

Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people.

Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create...

Horses are not for riding! They do not exist for riding! Horse riding is man's invention! It is the making up of human benefit!

Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!

We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!

I didn't realize it but I might have created the first cell phone. Had I patented it, I probably would have made so much money that I wouldn't have had to write this book.

Why take the risk? Surely somebody would invent a crystal ball to tell you whether or not a relationship would work out before it started.

With 'Twilight ' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza ' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.

anhydrohepseterion" (a machine for stewing potatoes in their own juice).

Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.

No corner of PARC generated anything like the Kay group's free-wheeling mania. "It was an amazingly seductive environment," recalled Merry. "I was there late at night all the time. People were so full of ideas and excitement, and of course everybody knew more than anybody else about how the world was supposed to be.

LINC "was the first machine that you could take apart and put in the back of your car, carry somewhere else, put back together again, and it would run," Ornstein recalled. "That idea had never previously seemed conceivable.

The governing principle of PARC was that the place existed to give their employer that ten-year head start on the future. They even contrived a shorthand phrase to explain the concept. The Alto, they said, was a time machine. Thacker

There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.