Quotes About Invention

Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be able to invent because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new.

One of the reasons we invented continuous prose was to lay out an argument, piling points on top of each other, weighing one view against another, even to invite the reader to look back at something earlier or later in a book.

And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.

If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.

Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician. I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades. I'm a developer of the technology.

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.

If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.

We really do prefer to build things rather than destroy things, believe it or not.

Football wasn't invented until the Premier League, we all know that.

There is a premium on innovation and commercializing new ideas.

The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that.

There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

Well, that's what it was bloody well designed to do, wasn't it?