Quotes of: Invention Keyword

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

Ray Dolby

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses

Kamila Shamsie

Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

Freeman Dyson

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Joyce Carol Oates

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Leonardo da Vinci

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

Joshua Foer

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

The Forsyte Saga

Necessity is the mother of invention. She’s also my mother, though Invention and I have different dads.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Kissing girls is not like science, nor is it like sport. It is the third thing when you thought there were only two.

The Invention of Love

His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.

The Invention of Morel

To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!

The Invention of Wings

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.

My Inventions

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

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.

Nathan Myhrvold

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.

Philip Levine

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

Steve Jobs

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

Thomas Heatherwick

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

Lynn Johnston

News invented the modern world as much as the modern world invented news. Finding out what was going on elsewhere in the world change people's minds about what was possible or tolerable.

Lawrence Kleep

Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of the idea... Piecing these things together gives one a sense of where inventions come from, and that's interesting.

Richard Rhodes