Quotes About Invention

A falta de uma crítica assim é um dos maiores males de que padece a nossa literatura; é mister que a análise corrija ou anime a invenção, que os pontos de doutrina e de história se investiguem, que as belezas se estudem, que os senões se apontem, que o gosto se apure e eduque, e se desenvolva e caminhe aos altos destinos que a esperam.

We human creatures can make watches and clocks and sensitive timing devices, but we don't understand what we're timing.

One thing I have learned, my friend, there is no such thing as the future. The future is just what we invent in the present to put an order over the past.

computer would come along that was small and inexpensive enough for an ordinary person to use and own. That day had finally arrived. If January 1975 was the

the day when a computer would come along that was small and inexpensive enough for an ordinary person to use and own. That day had finally arrived. If January 1975 was the dawn of the personal computer age, then who would

And do you know who wrote much of the software that allows you to access the Internet? Bill Joy.

Popeils had been doing for most of the century, and what all the experts said couldn't be done in the modern economy. He dreamed up something new in his kitchen and went out and pitched it himself.

You have to explain the invention to customers — not once or twice but three or four times, with a different twist each time. You have to show them exactly how it works and why it works, and make them follow your hands as you chop liver with it, and then tell them precisely how it fits into their routine, and, finally, sell them on the paradoxical fact that, revolutionary as the gadget is, it's not at all hard to use.

contraption that you could assemble at home. The headline on the story read: "PROJECT BREAKTHROUGH! World's

Ideas are the currency of innovation.

Every invention began as an imagination.

The successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

Creativity is especially expressed in the ability to make connections, to make associations, to turn things around and express them in a new way.

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one.

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Pixar is the most technically advanced creative company; Apple is the most creatively advanced technical company.

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.

Why should we try, why not just take the world as it is? I told her how he had said that we had to try because the alternative wasn't blankness – it only meant that if we didn't try ourselves, we would never be free of other people's inventions.

it was Manutius who invented italics, introduced the semicolon and gave the comma its distinctive hooked shape. As

She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had become effaced, the tracks lost, she had walked into pure chaos, and not a chaos which carried her like the galloping of romantic riders in operas and legends, but which suddenly revealed the stage props: a papier-mâché horse.