Quotes About Invention

Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out

Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

Probably no invention came more easily to man than Heaven.

Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating it can only be an expression of our humanity.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

My grandfather invented the cold air balloon... But it never really took off.

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There's no such place.

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze 'em?

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

So I met the bloke who invented crosswords today. I can't remember his name, it's P something T something R.

I want to make a vending machine that sells vending machines. It'd have to be real big.

I invented the cordless extension cord.

You can thank Henry Ford for that. He was a warlock, you know.

TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Hell's got IT?Yes, of course. Who do you think invented Candy Crush?

I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody's imagination.

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.