Quotes About Invention

The opening chapter was the book's unique selling point, the singular idea that had carried Darcy through last November, and Coleman had just come up with it off the top of his head.

She imagines herself as the long-dead Descartes, staring into his fireplace and building a world in his own mind.

if we canceled the shuttle, we'd create an urgent need for a replacement. The lack of a way to get to space would force us to invent a new, better, cheaper alternative.

Innovative marketers invent new solutions to work with old emotions.

Everyone who creates feels resistance, everyone that is seriously involved in inventing original work feels the fear, that's not the question. The question is where do you put the fear.

The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done. That would be you.

Moore's law is a law not of nature, but of human ingenuity.

I have often watched in fascination the leaps and bounds of her mind as, starting from the banks of uncomfortable facts, she reaches the safety of easier-tolive-with invention.

The path-breaking writer and thinker on nationalism, Benedict Anderson, has convincingly pointed out that identities uniting large numbers of people could arise only after a certain technological level had been attained.

Yes, I was bewildered. When was the last time a white American male was truly bewildered or would admit to such a thing? We had taken the world from covered wagons to space shuttles in seventy-five years. After such accomplishment, how could we ever get lost in the wilderness again? How could we not invent a device to guide our souls through the darkness?

The fork was invented sometime in the fifteenth century, I believe." "Really?" she asked. "Were you there?" His features blank, he looked up and asked, "What, for the invention of the fork or the fifteenth century?

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined.

Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.

I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.

I build things that I think are exciting from a technology standpoint and will help make life easier, simpler and better for people.

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.

We have white people problems in America. You know what that is? That's when your life is amazing, so you just make stuff up to get worried about.

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.

Iced tea is too pure and natural a creation not to have been invented as soon as tea, ice, and hot weather crossed paths.