Quotes About Invention

If I look into my past, I was definitely into inventors. I was into stories of Edison and Tesla and da Vinci and all these guys making stuff in their garage.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

My grandfather was Jacques Cousteau, a pioneer of ocean exploration and the co-inventor of scuba diving. Back in the 1940s when he tested out his invention which allowed humans to swim freely in the ocean with a portable air source for the first time in history, very little of the ocean had been explored let alone captured on film.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

Now a new era had dawned upon the world, which quivered with the impact of tremendous forces, of discoveries and inventions. Man rode upon the air, sent his voice across the seas, divided the indivisible, and penetrated the impenetrable. Audacious, optimistic, and indefatigable, he might even forget God altogether, and raise his limitless towers like altars to none other than himself.

The electrodes we'd been using on salamanders couldn't be scaled up for people, but within a week Charlie invented some that would give us equally precise readings from the human head.We immediately found that the back-to-front current varied with changes in consciousness just as in salamanders. It was strongest during heightened physical or mental activity, it declined during rest, and it reversed direction in both normal sleep and anesthesia.

In quel momento un'ombra di malinconia le passò sul volto. O ce lo stiamo inventando? Non riusciamo a capire - questo è certo - com'è che questi due esseri non abbiano potuto incontrarsi. Ma il lettore voglia credere, con noi, che un'ombra di malinconia passò davvero per un attimo sul volto di Elsbeth.

Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.

Se ha inventado casi todo pero no ha inventado el hombre una máxima de gobierno que supere a los principios de un Cristo, un Buda. No. Naturalmente, no le discutiré el derecho al escepticismo, pero el escepticismo es un lujo de minoría... Al resto le serviremos la felicidad bien cocinada y la humanidad engullirá gozosamente la divina bazofia.

Qué es lo que puedo hacer yo? Cuando tuvo la idea, cuando una pequeñita idea lo cercioró de que podía defraudar a sus patrones, experimentó la alegría de un inventor. ¿Robar? ¿Cómo no se le había ocurrido antes? Y Erdosain se asombró de su incapacidad llegando hasta reprocharse falta de iniciativa, pues en esa época (tres meses antes de los sucesos narrados) sufría necesidades de toda naturaleza, a pesar de que diariamente pasaban por

If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer, it would be justified.

Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.

Let's experiment. Someone must have figured it out once, in order to write a book. Why can't we do the same thing?

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS

Mark has everything to do with this! If you hadn't gone downside after him, you would never have been killed. And you wouldn't have been left with some damned cryonic short circuit in your head. You may think he's the greatest invention since the Necklin drive, but I loathe the fat little creep!" "Well, I like the fat little creep! Somebody has to. I swear, you are frigging jealous. Don't be such a damned cast-iron bitch!" They

he was getting mortally tired of having to reinvent the wheel every fifteen minutes.

To vault from the trenches of habitual thinking -- that is the birth of genius. Traussbery

This is why a woman makes things up: Because when she dies, those lives she never got to are all going down with her. All those possibilities will just site there like a bunch of school kids with their hands raised and uncalled on--each knowing, really knowing, the answer.

Monogamy was an invention of men who wished to reduce the power of women over them.

no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people.