Quotes About Invention

You never heard ofplugging her in ? My God, Myrnin, you made a vampire computer?

Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.

If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.

If 18,000 gods have been invented then it is likely that god 18,001 is also invented.

About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze.

God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.

When you invent something, there will always be people to criticise. God's creation is full of critics, but has God given up His creation because of the critics?

The human brain is the god of technological innovation.

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.

Bush explained his fundamental concept to me, that freedom is not an American invention, but rather a gift from God to all people.

That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.

There ain't been no angels in heaven around since God invented girls.

Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position.

He was a wise man who invented God.

S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer." (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)

Man invents nothing God did not create first.

(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.

It's not good enough to imitate the models proposed for us that are answers to circumstances other than our own. It isn't even enough to discover who we are. We have to invent ourselves.

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream.

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.