Quotes About Invention

My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.

I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity.

To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.

The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser.

I always wanted to have a technical career that was also creative. I have been extremely lucky in that sense to be able to combine those two things.

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

If you look at any 15 pieces of mine, nobody does a piece like them. Totally new techniques. All the jugglers are stealing from me and claiming that they've done it.

What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.

It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution.

I do think that deciding between a particular discovery and a technological breakthrough - I would always think the impact is probably much larger for the technological breakthrough.

I want to impact the world through futuristic yet affordable technologies to make the world a better place.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators - in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors - got their start here.

I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have to invent many new technologies before it can plausibly send people to those distances.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Science and technology are going to be the basis for many of the solutions to social problems.

I always say, 'Be near science and technology, and you will never fail.'

I like new technology.

We are often celebrating technology and codes, but we don't really think about the creative side.

I got my first patent in 1979 before I left the Air Force. I called it the Digital Distance Measuring Instrument. It used ones and zeros and dots and dashes and a magnifying lens to read binary-encoded information from a scale that was photographically reduced. It used the same kind of technology that's used in CDs and DVDs.

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.