Quotes About Invention

In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.

I did not plan to make the Cube.

At its core, HP has the best technologists on the planet Earth.

Now, after the Cube, I still don't have any plans to make anything like it.

I'd quite like to invent something that allows me to in eat the shower - not sure what it would entail. Some sort of funnel that goes from the plate to my mouth to move the food to my mouth and keep it dry, perhaps.

Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with.

I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help.

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can say that I'm vitamining myself to stave off a cold, I can complain that someone is the smilingest person I've ever seen, and I can decide, out of the blue, that 'fetch' is now the word I want to use to mean 'cool.'

Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.

When I first played the guitar without plugging it into an amplifier, the people at Fender were blown away. They couldn't believe the sound. I said, 'See, gentlemen, the world is no longer flat.'

People thought I was crazy thinking about a phone you can just put in your pocket.

The internet business model changed dramatically. You would never have an Uber, you would never had an Instagram, if you didn't have a connected computer in your pocket that didn't also have a camera or a GPS.

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

I was making Molotov cocktails long before I knew the name for them.

We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand.

The next big project, you yourself have to conceive.

I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.

I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do.

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

Homeowners want solar power. It's cost-effective. We invented a business model that makes it really easy for consumers to switch to solar - and that's solar-as-a-service.