Quotes About Invention

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things, and telling them to herself

In each century since the beginning of the world wonderful things have been discovered.

I could scatter largess to the populace. But even if I am only a pretend princess, I can invent little things to do for people. Things like this. She was just as happy as if it was largess. I'll pretend that to do things people like is scattering largess. I've scattered largess.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.

It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

Once . . . long ago, he'd thought of himself as an inventor of government. But the invention had fallen into old patterns. It was like some hideous contrivance with plastic memory. Shape it any way you wanted, but relax for a moment, and it snapped into the ancient forms. Forces at work beyond his reach in human breasts eluded and defied him.

I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

Moram brže tr?ati. Povijest je neprestana utrka izme?u izuma i katastrofe. Školovanje pomaže, ali nikad nije dovoljno. Moraš i tr?ati.

If there is no enemy, one must be invented.

If there is no enemy, one must be invented. The military force which is denied an external target always turns against its own people.

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.

I assure you that the ability to view our futures can become a bore. Even to be thought of as a god, as I certainly was, can become ultimately boring. It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will. —INSCRIPTION ON THE STOREHOUSE AT DAR-ES-BALAT

You think that in a world without birds, men would not invent aircraft! What a fool you are! Men can invent anything!

holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.   —

Too bad I can't afford to patent it. I can make a fortune. But again,I have a fortune. -Batman, Year One comic.

When Henry Ford invented the Model-T, women shed their bloomers and put sex on the road.

My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

I ought to be able to invent words capable of blowing the odor of corpses in a direction other than straight into mine and the reader's face.

I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

Nobody knew they needed a smart phone, an automobile, or even a cheeseburger from a drive through window.

The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity's attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it.