Quotes About Invention

It does a man no harm to move around a bit and see things. It is a great thing for widening out the mind. A wide mind is a grand thing, it nearly always leads to farseeing inventions.

In fantasy, you have licence to pick whatever you like out of history and fantasy, and you don't have to be accurate.

I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I can dream up, that feels far away from me.

Technology is fascinating.

At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas - what ideas are for, what jobs they do.

My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

I liked the challenge of designing and building things, figuring out how something works and how to make it better or apply it in a different way.

Fire is our first form of technology.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

People keep saying Balachander discovered me. I differ. He invented me. When a stalwart like him suggests that I act in films, who am I to refuse?

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

Whoever invented double clicking should be shot in the head! Twice!

I think design means, for me, almost when man, back in time, decided to do something conscious. You know... to shape something and make something different from just using things that were lying around. So whoever designed the wheel were onto a good thing.

'Nuclear' is nothing but trouble. Do you say 'new-clear' or do you say 'nuke-you-ler'? Whoever invented that word had obviously never studied the human mouth. We don't have enough muscles in our face to make that group of letters come out smoothly. The word is missing a middle syllable, for cryin' out loud.

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things. And the effect this power has had need hardly be mentioned. The whole industrial revolution would almost have been impossible without the development of science.

Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often, the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.

'Snowpiercer' was out of this world. It gave me a chance to do something I'd never done before, to create a whole new world.

The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.

The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.