Quotes About Invention

And the seventh hero…Leo Valdez?" Nico raised his eyebrows. "You remember his name?" "Of course! He invented the Valdezinator. Oh, what a musical instrument! I barely had time to master its major scales before Zeus zapped me at the Parthenon. If anyone could help me, it would be Leo Valdez.

Team Leo!~ Leo valdez

They must really like olives. Oh, forget it. Now, if she'd invented pizza-that I could understand.

What is the glory in repeating whta others have done?

Your father is a complete___! I don't know what she called him, but I have a feeling that's when the first cuss were invented.

Leo ran down the hall waving a wrench. "Man, did you have to destroy the plumbing?

I wish you'd be quiet," I muttered. "I also wish we had snowshoes." "You'd need Uller for that," said the goat. "Who?" "The god of snowshoes," said Otis. "He invented them. Also archery and…I don't know, other stuff.

You didn't create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I handed you an invention you had never seen before, you wouldn't know it's purpose, and the invention itself wouldn't be able to tell you either. Only the creator or the owner's manual could reveal it's purpose.

The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.

La manera más fácil de entender el propósito de un invento es preguntarle al inventor. Lo mismo ocurre cuando quieres saber la razón de tu vida: pregúntale a Dios.

Can I let you in on a remarkable secret? I find that the more ideas I let myself have, the more ideas I have.

How'd you communicate? Paper and pen. Amazing inventions. Anyway, once we were in Buffalo, I led him here. We couldn't figure out a way in and he got stressed and apparently that -- she waved at him--- is what happens when a werewolf gets stressed. By then, the garage door was open, some staff guy bringing in a car. He took one look at Derek and decided it was time for a new job

Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.

Sometimes Winston imagined he had devised a policy when all he had done was coin a phrase.

The Medieval Machine

All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

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!

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).

Innovation lies in a creative mind

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure.... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Incised in the stone over the Herbert C. Hoover Building's north entrance is the legend that, with Lincoln's characteristic brevity, sums up the single most powerful idea in the world: THE PATENT SYSTEM ADDED THE FUEL OF INTEREST TO THE FIRE OF GENIUS