Quotes About Invention

The liberation promised by every invention ends with the growing submission of the man who adopts it to the man who manufactures it.

The man who invents a new machine invents for humanity a new concatenation of new forms of servitude.

What is threatening about a technological device is that it can be used by someone who lacks the intellectual capacity of the man who invented it.

Optimisim is a fairly modern invention. — Classical literature lacks this vulgar sentiment.

To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones.

Ce que j'ai appris, je l'ai oublié ; ce que je sais, je l'ai inventé.

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.

Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is. -- Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012)

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success . . . Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

The devil take those who first invented balls!" was his reflection. "Who derives any real pleasure from them? In this province there exist want and scarcity everywhere: yet folk go in for balls! How absurd, too, were those overdressed women! One of them must have had a thousand roubles on her back, and all acquired at the expense of the overtaxed peasant, or, worse still, at that of the conscience of her neighbour.

Good fiction creates its own reality.

At every stage of technique since Daedalus or Hero of Alexandria, the ability of the artificer to produce a working simulacrum of a living organism has always intrigued people.

The word midrash itself springs from the Hebrew, I'drash , meaning 'to question'. . . . midrash invents alternative aspects of character and event, keeping the possibilities open [ Out of the Garden .

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can also invent peace with justice.

La macchina tecnologicamente più efficiente che l'uomo abbia mai inventato è il libro.

Hätten wir auch eine Phantastik wie eine Logik, so wäre die Erfindungskunst – erfunden. Zur Phantastik gehört auch die Ästhetik gewissermaßen wie die Vernunftlehre zur Logik.

Önce hiçbir ?ey yoktu. Bütün evren, kelimesiz bir tekdüzelikten ibaretti. Fakat o s?rada kelime icat edilmedi?i için, bu bölümü anlatam?yoruz.

And the rule I gave myself was that I had to invent at least one thing new every day and also read a book everyday. For many years now that has been my fixed rule.

Self is. Self is body and bodily perception. Self is thought, memory, belief. Self creates. Self destroys. Self learns, discovers, becomes. Self shapes. Self adapts. Self invents its own reasons for being. To shape God, shape Self.