Quotes about Invention

Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'

Time is just something we invented to make motion seem simple.

Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, 'Everyone who's ever taken a shower has had an idea, It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

He who first invented the notion of defending Christianity is de facto Judas No. 2; he also betrays with a kiss, only his treachery is that of stupidity.

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

All ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the gardener with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.

I am reminded of how difficult and time-consuming it is to reinvent the pencil every time you want to send a message.

The idea that people of faith cling to God to avoid science has been replaced with the idea that atheists cling to their invented God-of-the-gaps idea to avoid the real God who created the universe that science is discovering, and whose existence is increasingly undeniable because of those very discoveries.