Best 375 quotes in «invention quotes» category

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.

I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

I just realized that with the invention of the iPhone and others you now get to see the top of people's heads.

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.

I'm a raging leftist political activist. I've never had a spiritual thought in my life related to God. I'm clear that that's a human invention.

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

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

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

Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

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

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Innovation transforms the useful seeds of invention into widely adopted solutions valued above every existing alternative.

Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job.

Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.

Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood.

Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.

[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.

Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity.

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

Invention is the mother of necessities.

Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future.

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

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

Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

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

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to his own invention is a very different matter. It is no more a monopoly for him to possess that, than to possess his own homestead .

I think the FDIC was one of the great inventions of the American.

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

It is an invention of the devil, an infernal falsity for the destruction of all Christianity.

I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

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

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

I've heard some designers talk about the design process being centred on invention, starting with a blank slate. I admire that and occasionally I'm capable of that, but I have to admit that I really have trouble working with completely open briefs.

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

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.