Quotes About Invention

Dogbert to Dilbert My invention can detect human stupidity. It has a very simple interface. All I do is point it at people. Then what does it do? Why would it need to do anything else?

Ihr Schauspiel ist immer neu, weil sie immer neue Zuschauer schafft. Leben ist ihre schönste Erfindung und der Tod ist ihr Kunstgriff, viel Leben zu haben.

He invented the Fuse Box Dwarf, a little man who popped out at you from behind the paint cans in the cellarway and screamed, "Dreeb! Dreeb! I am the Fuse Box Dwarf!" Lewis was not scared by the little man, and he felt that those who scream "Dreeb" are more to be pitied than censured.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.

CDMA—better known as frequency hopping, or "spread spectrum"—was a way to use multiple frequencies to send the same signal. This system was invented by Hedy Lamarr, the actress, and would become the industry standard.19

Nikolaus Otto built and sold the first internal-combustion gasoline engine in 1861, and Rudolf Diesel built his engine in 1897

Euryphaean, and the music of an instrument called a pianoforte, infinite resistance coil and the sanity glass, and all the inventions that sprang from

Vrys' First Law: If you deny reality, you must invent a fantasy.

All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.

Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.

I don't want to write my life. I live my life. I want to make up a new world.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.

The only way forward in life is innovation.

The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss.

Our role is to imagine products that don't exist and guide them to life.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.