Quotes About Invention

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.

An important technology first creates a problem and then solves it.

Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

Technology is important because it creates the future. We're able to be a part of the "next" and create things that don't exist.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.

Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and prayed for light and understanding.

Technology is everything that doesn't work yet.

I'm more of a science head, so I was like, how would a guy use - if there were ghosts - technology to bring them back?

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge of how they are to be solved.

Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions.

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.