Quotes About Invention

If you could truly believe, we should realise the virtue of it. We are not free to believe . . . . however much we so desire, having conflicting ideas to first exhaust. Sigils are the art of believing; my invention for making belief organic, ergo, true belief.

Countries, sovereignty, citizenship, and laws are all social constructions: abstractions invented by humans.

We invent for ourselves the major part of experience," Nietzsche says in Beyond Good and Evil.

I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.

Religions tell us to get rid of these emotions, but we cannot. They are human emotions that we will feel whether we want to or not. Suppression does not work. George Stevenson invented the steam engine because he noticed that the steam in a boiling kettle lifted the lid. The force was irresistible. yoga is about channeling and transforming that energy to higher purposes, just as Stevenson used the energy of steam to drive locomotives.

Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

Rap music started because they were bored of other music so they created something really new.

If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.

Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.

A 3D printer needs three elements: a bit of information, some raw material, some energy, and it can produce any object that was not there before.

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

Creativity is about a reaction.

My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

I make things up for a living. It would be pretty boring to just fictionalize real people.

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

It was amazing feeling to be able to be involved in invention, but not just invention - the creating of a marketplace that had real value to add.

The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me.

The reason I like my job is that I have this desire to create. I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.

The only thing I don't like is being called the 'grandfather of the cellphone' because that makes me a little older than I prefer to be.

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing.