Quotes About Inventing

#1. Next door to the Bensons is Emmet Frag, a retired pacemaker who is credited with inventing the notion of happiness. He's currently working on a method for categorising ducks based on their singing voice. He's also the owner of the world's largest collection of tenor geese.

St John Morris

#2. 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

#3. One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

Stephen Hawking

#4. You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.

Richard Bach

#5. You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it ... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.

Grace Paley

#6. A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

Paul Theroux

#7. This is the problem with inventing. Virtually everything has been done already. These days most things are just the same things but tweaked. Everything is 'new and improved'.

Karl Pilkington

#8. Which is more difficult? Inventing an unsolvable problem, or solving one.

Keigo Higashino

#9. The extraordinary thing about inventing a persona is that one is loathe to give it up, especially if the fiction sits comfortably.

Gita Mehta

#10. Revolutionary intellectuals have the historic mission of inventing the vocabulary and the themes for the next tyranny.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#11. NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil.

Will Chabot

#12. One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.

Walter M. Fitch

#13. Being single means getting used to your own company and not inventing excuses to keep people around you, None of which makes me feel any less bereft. The latest revelation: you have to relearn being your own again!

Mhairi McFarlane

#14. People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

John Le Carre

#15. Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

Agatha Christie

#16. As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

Elizabeth Berg

#17. I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new social networks or new games, instead of inventing the cures for cancer or fundamental technologies that will change the world.

Charles Duhigg

#18. Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.

Muriel Barbery

#19. Thank Satan's scientists for inventing the birth control pill.

Eve Langlais

#20. You see, I'm not the hack. God is. And the Old Fart doesn't know how to write a conclusion that'll satisfy his audience. He leaves that to us, his lost children, doing his dirty work, inventing uplifting endings to erase his mistakes.

Rafael Yglesias

#21. The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed.

Sara Harrison

#22. In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have - the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world around us.

Jonathan Stalling

#23. I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, inventing. The day I cease to learn, I must stop.

Alber Elbaz

#24. Like most Eastern Europeans, he was not amenable to the socialist ethic so many Israeli leftists still romanticized, despite the proven failure of Communism to solve any of the world's problems and its unenviable success in inventing many new ones.

Naomi Ragen

#25. The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place ... is called genius.

Craig Bruce

#26. I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

Alber Elbaz

#27. If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.

Deborra-Lee Furness

#28. Storytelling is easy. All that's needed is a beginning, a middle and an end, and about 53,000 words. Not true. There is nothing more difficult than inventing a story.

Dennis Macaraeg

#29. The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of it.

Karl Popper

#30. Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire.

Mike Cloud

#31. I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.

Alan Alda

#32. If you have ever talked about having an "identity crisis" you have psychologist Erik Erikson to thank for inventing the term. Erikson

Tom Butler-Bowdon

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

Ray Dolby

#34. The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

Jean Piaget

#35. We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.

Carl Sagan

#36. By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

Lewis Mumford

#37. Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer, all those things didn't come from government. Our world is going to get better and better, as long as we keep the politicians from screwing it up.

David Boaz

#38. I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.

Woody Norris

#39. We don't have to stop inventing abstract models that describe the behavior of imaginary Econs. We do, however, have to stop assuming that those models are accurate descriptions of behavior, and stop basing policy decisions on such flawed analyses.

Richard H. Thaler

#40. The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

Jeremiah Wright

#41. Changing and inventing new things is great. That's what we like to do.

Anthony Kiedis

#42. They were inventing their own type of relationship, one that wasn't officially recognized by history or immortalized in poetry or song, but which felt truer and less constraining.

Hanya Yanagihara

#43. I'm surprised at you! If it will take ten years to make the machine with available technology, and only five years to make it with a new technology, and it will only take two years to invent the new technology, then you can do it in seven years by inventing the new technology first!

Neal Stephenson

#44. The R&D department can't get them to work but because the timing is wrong. Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

Ray Kurzweil

#45. I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people.

Gretchen Rubin

#46. Death ray?" scoffed Victor. "Death ray? Everyone thinks that inventors just have death rays just sitting around. 'Oh you're an inventor? Have you made a death ray yet?' 'How's the inventing going? What's your death ray like?' I'm sick of it.

Dennis Liggio

#47. I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions.

Josh Duhamel

#48. The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary colour,or, indeed, of creating a new sun and a new sky for it to move in.

C.S. Lewis

#49. The word meltdown had not yet entered the reactor engineer's vocabulary - Fermi was only then inventing that specialty - but that is what Compton was risking, a small Chernobyl in the midst of a crowded city.

Richard Rhodes

#50. As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

Julia Glass

#51. Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#52. I said, 'I need to know how he died.'
He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'
So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#53. Dilbert: I'm obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it's impossible, but I have something they don't. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.

Scott Adams

#54. We're actually making stuff in America now. We're exporting stuff. We're inventing things.

Amy Klobuchar

#55. Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

George Orwell

#56. The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.

Ian Somerhalder

#57. When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

Ben Okri

#58. In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.

Jules Verne

#59. The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented ... They come from inventing new questions!

Seth Godin

#60. America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered by a thousand cicumstances.

Israel Shenker

#61. Sightseeing, an activity that delights the truly idle because it seems so much like scholarship, gawping and eavesdropping on antiquity, flattering oneself with the notion that one is discovering the past when really one is inventing it, using a guidebook as a scenario of swift notations.

Paul Theroux

#62. Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

Terry Pratchett

#63. The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred ... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem of inventing for oneself a liberalism according to one's own tastes and passing it off as an evolution from past ideas.

Ralph Raico

#64. He liked to say that what makes literature is "inventing truly from honestly acquired knowledge, so that what you make up is truer than what you might remember.

Paul Hendrickson

#65. Implementing best practice is copying yesterday, innovation is inventing tomorrow.

Paul Sloane

#66. We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them.

Bill Gates

#67. I took a great joy with inventing new kinds of mechanisms. I invented new kinds of machines. I've been a student of science fiction for a long, long time, and I'm very well-versed in science fact and science fiction.

Jack Kirby

#68. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept. To

Samuel Beckett

#69. It's not about inventing, it's about saying it best.

Wendy Potocki

#70. Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.

Alexander Graham Bell

#71. I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

Suzanne Vega

#72. It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.

William Kittredge

#73. The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

Jeff Bezos

#74. It is not believed that a people capable of inventing the genre of "oral painting" could have spawned the viaduct killer, and in any case no ghetto resident is permitted access to any other area of the city. ("A Short Guide To The City")

Peter Straub

#75. When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.

Roberto Benigni

#76. Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part in the world around them. Whereas artists are always retreating, locking the door, and inventing other worlds.

Paul Auster

#77. I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create a completely new world, inventing everyone and everything.

Xiaolu Guo

#78. I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don't know what it feels like to fall in love.

Mira Nair

#79. Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Patricia Briggs

#80. We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines; if that isn't insanity than what is?

Debasish Mridha

#81. Calvin had a talent for inventing abusive nicknames and he styled this amorphous opposition 'Libertines', which had a conveniently scandalous resonance, while also reflecting the undoubted fact that his opponents sought a freedom for which he saw no need.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#82. Whereas if I want to create a prostitute character now from memories of different prostitutes and inventing stuff, I can say, "this could happen," "this is quite plausible." But I don't feel I know enough about border life to do the latter.

William T. Vollmann

#83. There was a time when educators became famous for providing reasons for learning; now they become famous for inventing a method.

Neil Postman

#84. The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.

Orhan Pamuk

#85. His genius was not in inventing; rather, it was in inventing a system of invention.

Graham Moore

#86. Some people like drama so much that they have to start inventing things because real life isn't interesting enough for them.

Lisa Ballantyne

#87. I'm very jealous of an era where people were inventing something so beautiful as the Concorde and thinking that's the next step. I'm jealous of an era when people thought, "Let's finally go to the Moon."

Aleksandra Mir

#88. The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.

Vladimir Nabokov

#89. What if I never stop inventing?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#90. In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

Mark Twain

#91. Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for today's gamers.

Sid Meier

#92. Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.

Seth Godin

#93. I never put real people into my fiction
I can't see the slightest point of that, when I have the alternative of inventing utterly subservient slave-people, whose every detail of appearance and behavior I can bend to serve my theme and plot.

Barbara Kingsolver

#94. Men are inventing ideas every day to justify for themselves and others their actions and needs.

Richard Wright

#95. Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#96. There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

Carl Sagan

#97. Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.

Edward Hirsch

#98. I think there's no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It's like inventing something, but it's invisible, you know? It's weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that's the joy. It's like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they're your kids.

Jason Mraz

#99. 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

#100. To those who hadn't been around Violet long, nothing would have seemed unusual, but those who knew her well knew that when she tied her hair up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes, it meant that the gears and levers of her inventing brain were whirring at top speed.

Lemony Snicket