Quotes About Invention

There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.

The dishwasher is the best invention in the world, I didn't grow up with one so it's my prize possession in the kitchen!

Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.

My learning process has always been very idea-oriented. I never sat down with a book being like, 'OK, now I'm going to learn about transistors.' Instead I had an idea that I really liked and learned as I was trying to figure out how to build it.

We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives, we do so by gradually altering those habits, which is to say the networks of our memory. No lasting joke, or invention, or insight, or work of art was ever produced by an external memory. Not yet, at least.

Well, I mean there are so many producers that inspire me. I used to try to imitate production by certain people. And now I'm only interested in doing the opposite of that. I'm only interested in doing production that like no one's ever done before.

Israel produces more conceptual products than any other country.

The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

When designing your product, go beyond consumers' current knowledge base. Design, test, and dig deeper than almost any client would pay you to do.

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

I would try doing a dish 30 different ways.

I like to experiment when it comes to music.

You can't make experimental work by copying past work.

For me, music is about experimentation.

I'm still experimenting.

I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

I like to do extraordinary things that no one else can do, and no one in the history of mankind has designed, built and launched himself in his own rocket.

If you get the product and technology right, then the rest usually falls into place.

Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.

The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we're discovering, it's been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, 'Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.' And it doesn't matter if it's from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective.

I built a lot of stuff as a kid. But I was not interested in tech, I thought it wasn't really for me.