Skype is a wonderful invention. It might be my favorite thing because I get to see my family and the ones that you love.
One rule of invention: before you can invent it, you have to imagine it.
Of all the inventions of humans, the computer is going to rank near or at the top as history unfolds and we look back. It is the most awesome tool that we have ever invented. I feel incredibly lucky to be at exactly the right place in Silicon Valley, at exactly the right time, historically, where this invention has taken form.
It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.
The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.
For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.
Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything I was had been invented. Initially, I took it to be a fundamental conflict. But today I find pleasure in accepting that this thing called 'identity' is the true invention. There's no way that it really exists.
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate.
If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.
The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.
Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Necessity, the mother of invention.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
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.
I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
