Quotes About Invention

I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.

The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.

We will spend the rest of the day inventing a kind of love that no longer exists in the world, a kind of love no army can pillage at the outposts, no rumor could bring to its knees like a traitor.

I imagined a dark world where the stars clamor to be inside us. Whatever we invent becomes the history we have to live. In truth, it takes only a handful of history's shadows to commandeer our dreams It takes a famine of the heart to empty the streets of our words. It takes an imaginary terror to rid ourselves of imagination.

Sometimes it seems that all our words, even those for love, are written in another language. And yet they still arrive, distant, full of their own silences which may be what allows us to invent another story, what saves us. What is the word for the kind of love the woman shows now? A word that contains the whole story the way her lamp contains her room, — Richard Jackson, from "The Whole Story," Resonance: Poems (The Ashland Poetry Press, 2010)

Soft cheese is a reminder that all cheese is just milk that crawled into a ditch to die, then some lunatic came along, spread the corpse on a saltine, and invented hors d'oeuvres.

So, if you invent a way of price-simplifying that works, be sure to roll it out internationally before local rivals have a chance to copy it.

Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product. 4 Henry Ford

Creativity," Einstein famously said, "is more important than knowledge.

Elliot? Your vampire's name is Elliot? What's his last name?' 'I don't know. He's never said. But even Elliot might not be his real name.' 'Why would anyone make up a name like that?

A semicomma, we should note, doesn't exist; we just made the word up. But it sounds like a punctuation mark that should exist, doesn't it?

Our lives may be more productive, but less inventive.

No idea is too strange or ridiculous. An unworkable idea may inspire in someone else an idea that will work.

There are a hundred thousand species of love, separately invented, each more ingenious than the last, and every one of them keeps making things.

Pump seals therefore had to be devised that were both gastight and greaseless, a puzzle no one had ever solved before that required the development of new kinds of plastics. (The seal material that eventually served at Oak Ridge came into its own after the war under the brand name Teflon.)

the homosexual,' 'the Negro,' and 'the female' are best seen not as inevitable classifications of human beings but rather as inventions that have done more harm than good.

Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.

In these dreams it's always you: the boy in the sweatshirt, the boy on the bridge, the boy who always keeps me from jumping off the bridge. Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.

I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.

Your invention must be new. The USPTO grants patents for new (or "novel") inventions only. Your invention isn't new if someone previously invented it, patented it, or wrote about it before your filing date. However, there would be an exception if you (the inventor) or anyone who obtained the subject matter from you made certain disclosures of the claimed invention within a limited one-year grace period before filing.

pendulum is not a new invention.

How could you ever learn to trust the things you made up?

The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator to explain it.

We Have Not Yet Built Our Defining Product