Technology Invention Quotes

#1. Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

Alison Gopnik

#2. The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

Yoko Ono

#3. And each new invention of technology or interaction technique requires experimentation and study before the principles of good design can be fully integrated into practice

Anonymous

#4. I wouldn't want them [kids] to raid my liquor cabinet and glug down my bourbon either.

Cheech Marin

#5. The Western countries have experienced a development trajectory in which higher wages led to the invention of labour-saving technology, whose use drove up labour productivity and wages with it.

Robert C. Allen

#6. Naturally, I never told him I thought he was a terrific whistler. I mean you don't just go up to somebody and say, 'You're a terrific whistler.

J.D. Salinger

#7. Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

Peter Drucker

#8. Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

Demetri Martin

#10. Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.

Margaret Mead

#11. All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#12. Throw an idea into the world and its impact will ripple and reverberate beyond your side of the shore.

A.E. Samaan

#13. Wonderful invention, the phonograph. Keeps a man alive long after he's dead.

P.J. Wolfson

#14. The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

Dave Barry

#15. It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie or because you're reading interviews from giantly, massively famous actors, but you don't just get offered parts, all the time. You actually have to work to get them.

Zoey Deutch

#16. Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our technology would have been impossible. Should we say therefore that calculus is bad?

Stanislaw Ulam

#17. Nothing is impossible until you quit or die trying.

Wes Fesler

#18. The inventors of tools enhance civilization,
but the author of ideas enables them to invent.

Toba Beta

#19. Anything for the truth. No sacrifice is too great.

Paul Auster

#20. Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.

Ivor Brown

#21. Is the gun really necessary?"
"No," he admitted. "It's just fun to have one."
"Like an extra penis," I mused.
He smiled unkindly. "Something like that.

Karina Halle

#22. As long as you draw breath anywhere -here or ten thousands miles from here- I will love you. I can't help loving you, so I choose to hate you ... to make my love bearable.

Rick Yancey

#23. I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.

Marc Andreessen

#24. Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.

Gay Talese

#25. Technology is not simply additive; it is more often exponential. An invention usually triggers other inventions.

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

#26. As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is required for licensing. Instead, I work with invention, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and clinical application of artificial hearts.

Robert Jarvik

#27. Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.

David Crystal

#28. Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.

Bill Nighy

#29. The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can't wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.

Chris Gardner

#30. I was born in Georgia. That's where my grandparents-and all my people-are from. But my family traveled a great deal because my dad was in the army as a helicopter pilot.

Michael Stipe

#31. Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance

Dalai Lama XIV

#32. Does writing exist for the typewriter, or the typewriter for writing? . . . the invention of the computer would one day make [the] argument obsolete . . . technologies exist for humans, and not vice versa.

Minae Mizumura

#33. Apparently, the glasses didn't need to be connected to the internet for the wearer to poke into someone's personal life. Even though a search engine could lead to an individual's address, the browser couldn't actually physically take you there. What had this inventor done? Did he have any idea?

Chess Desalls

#34. The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. Machines have replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy