Quotes About Invention

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

One's life is peculiarly one's own when one has invented it.

come in a dream or a flash of insight. Frequently you have read of inventors telling that when they waked, the answer to whatever it was, was there in their brains. This

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

What I really want out of life is to discover something new, something mankind didn't know was possible to do.

Creativity is the supreme mystery of life, the mystery of the appearance of something new, hitherto unknown, derived from nothing, proceeding from nothing, born of nothing other.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

Pioneering spirit should continue, not to conquer the planet or space ... but rather to improve the quality of life.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

A desire for a small government is nothing new, of course. At the end of the nineteenth century, a U.S. government official proposed closing the office of patents. Everything of importance had already been invented, he said.

Don't look," he says. "I'm inventing this. No one will ever know what I have done except me.