Quotes About Invention

We live in a void, Prim. There is us and nothing else that is real, except that which we make. Reason is one of those things we invent to help us find our way. We have to find some goal. I have you and a comfortable life, and our family.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

It's an invention, a fairy tale devoid of any sense, like all the legends in which good spirits and fortune tellers fulfill wishes. Stories like that are made up by poor simpletons, who can't even dream of fulfilling their wishes and desires themselves. I'm pleased you're not one of them, Geralt of Rivia. It makes you closer in spirit to me. If I want something, I don't dream of it—I act. And I always get what I want.

A la gente le gusta inventarse monstruos y monstruosidades. Entonces se parecen menos monstruos a sí mismos. [...]Entonces, como que se les quita un peso de encima. Y les resulta más fácil vivir.

People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.

People,' Geralt turned his head, 'like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.

And they dare say that we, humans, invented all the dirty tricks. On the other hand…' 'Hem, hem?' coughed Ori Reuven, surprised by his boss's sudden – and then continuing – silence. 'On the other hand, they may have finally begun to learn from us,' said the spy coldly, looking down at the denunciations, interrogation reports and death sentences.

A las gente le gusta inventarse monstruos y monstruosidades, entonces parecen menos monstruosos asi mismos

People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.

People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.

People"—Geralt turned his head—"like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.

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I will vanish in the morning light; I was only an invention of darkness.

It is a characteristic of human beings that if they haven't got a family of their own, they will invent one.

I will vanish in the morning light; I was only an invention of darkness. And I leave you as a souvenir the dark, fanged rose I plucked from between my thighs, like a flower laid on a grave.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but there is nothing that guarantees a successful pregnancy.

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you're going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

I didn't like the way a wet cotton T-shirt felt under my equipment. There had to be something better.

Sitting still, a person produces about 100 watts of heat. What if you could use that to charge your cell phone?

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Pavel Durov only knows how to copy great products like Facebook and 'WhatsApp'; he never had and will never have original ideas.

Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.

You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.