Invention Quotations

Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture.

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have.

Tim Berners-Lee, the 44-year-old English physicist who created the World Wide Web, is precisely the kind of hero that a relatively simple invention with profound social and economic consequences should lay claim to. He is not just creative but democratic, diplomatic, polite and generous with credit and praise.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

The invention of the micro-loan was a big surprise to me. Who would have guessed loans of less than $20 made to poor people in undeveloped countries could create thriving local economies? And, even more surprisingly, that they more reliably pay off their debts than the wealthy of the world.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

The invention of the iPod changes how you use music. Suddenly you have music everywhere.

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?

No Latina woman would be called 'Ms.' - that's an invention of middle-class Anglo women. Latina women are proud to be called 'Mrs.' That simply means that we have a family.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists.

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

The thriller is not a recent invention. It probably goes back to the dawn of storytelling.

The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity's attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the strangest one I've ever done. I created six large, separate outlines, one for each part of the book, and hung them around my study.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. To invent is to discern, to choose.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

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.

I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.

The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

When I was a boy, we all learned the story of George Washington and the cherry tree and accepted it as gospel truth. The present, more enlightened younger generation, however, is well aware that this incident never happened, but that it was the invention of Washington's most famous biographer, the Rev. Mason Locke Weems.

We're looking for the next blockbuster new product. And visitors to http://www.gardenweasel.com can now submit their invention to us to consider taking it to the retail marketplace.

Invention is totally independent of the will.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility.

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make it the most important invention of the 20th century.

I think one of the most groundbreaking inventions of all time is the jackhammer.

Money is a wonderful invention. It lets us save, it lets us specialize, right? I couldn't be a professor if there wasn't any money. Every day I would have to raise chicken and bread and broccoli and go ahead and spend all my time trading. So, money is a wonderful mechanism.

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

The 'I' character in journalism is almost pure invention.

There are elements that were pure invention on my part.

The products associated with the internet are where I spend a lot of my time right now. It is a revolution that is bigger than the invention of printing. It is a revolution that's bigger than the invention of the telephone, radio, or any of the major revolutions that we've had in the past.

One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

My grandfather was Jacques Cousteau, a pioneer of ocean exploration and the co-inventor of scuba diving. Back in the 1940s when he tested out his invention which allowed humans to swim freely in the ocean with a portable air source for the first time in history, very little of the ocean had been explored let alone captured on film.

Nevertheless, several of my friends have from time to time tried to induce me to write a concise account of my steel invention in my own quiet way.

I became kind of like the village blacksmith after the invention of the automobile, ... There just was nowhere to go. Obviously, the next thing for me was directing movies.

What I love about Paul's work is the combination of the endless invention with a strong dramatic imagination.

We take this template ... and act as if it's God-given. We don't see that this was a social invention and we can re-invent it. We as a society need to create new templates for work life.

We take this template ... and act as if it's God-given, ... We don't see that this was a social invention and we can re-invent it. We as a society need to create new templates for work life.

What we weren't counting on was the rapid progress of the Open Invention Network, which serves a similar purpose for businesses in a much more compelling way.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

Here's an analogy. The invention of calculus was shocking because for a long time it had simply been presumed that you couldn't divide by zero.

Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.

There is an accusation of a rise of companies sitting defensively on patents. There are patent thickets, which are a complex web of patents which may stunt invention and discourage research and development.

I think the Maya participated in the invention of writing much earlier than thought. As cities began in Mesoamerica around this time, writing was a part of that, just like public art and presentation of political ideology. It's all part of a package.

I think the iPhone was as significant an invention as the Gutenburg press, in terms of the future of humanity.

I think the inner person is the most important. . . . I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

I thought and pondered - vainly. I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations.

Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.