Quotes About Invention

I feel like a lot of the technology that happens in gaming, starts in gaming and it goes broader than gaming.

We're the toolmakers. Our developers are the real creative geniuses.

Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine.

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

We love experimentation. That's where the gold nuggets come from.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

Writing—the art of communicating thoughts to the mind, through the eye," which, he had no doubt, "is the great invention of the world.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.

A virtue must be our invention; it must spring out of our personal need and defence.

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the gai saber, to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

We can destroy only as creators

138. We do the same when awake as when dreaming: we only invent and imagine him with whom we have intercourse—and forget it immediately.

We invented the concept 'purpose': in reality purpose is lacking.…

The Germans invented gunpowder—all credit to them! but they again made things square—they invented printing.)

To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.

But surpassing all stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind was his who dreamed of finding means to communicate his deepest thoughts to any other person, though distant by mighty intervals of place and time! Of talking with those who are in India; of speaking to those who are not yet born and will not be born for a thousand or ten thousand years; and with what facility, by the different arrangements of twenty characters upon a page!

Magic predates Art. In fact, Art may have been invented as a tool to express Magic, to give Magic a practical means of execution—to make it work . So that if you go back far enough, artist and sorcerer are indistinguishable, on and the same—a claim that can still be made with a good deal of validity to this very day.

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

Cellular was the forerunner to true wireless communications.

For 'Thunderstruck', I discarded about a dozen ideas. And then one afternoon, I was thinking about wireless. I don't know why. I guess because it's become so ubiquitous. I was thinking that maybe there's something I could do about the origin of wireless, so I did what any self-respecting person does these days: I Googled 'wireless.'