Zitat des Tages über Erfindung / Invention:
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.
Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer.
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
In England, there's no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.
But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.
Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
Afternoon classes - that evil invention!
Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.
We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.
Tim Berners-Lee, the 44-year-old English physicist who created the World Wide Web, is precisely the kind of hero that a relatively simple invention with profound social and economic consequences should lay claim to. He is not just creative but democratic, diplomatic, polite and generous with credit and praise.
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?
In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.
Internally, we're focused on building our own technology, leveraging all the momentum that's out there around wearable computing and mobile computing and PC computing. But at the end of the day, all the code we've written and all the invention we've created has been focused on our own tech and our own products.
The U.K. has been very progressive about on-demand, and the iPlayer has been a great invention. It has trained a generation of viewers to expect on-demand - unfortunately, it trains them to expect free!
I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.
If it wasn't for my primary school teacher reminding me to be observant, I may not have had the inspiration to think of my invention.
We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.
I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.
So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.
Invention and memory are so close together in the place they occupy in my brain.
Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.
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.
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
