As revolutionary as it may be, the Net is best understood as the latest in a long series of tools that have helped mold the human mind.

While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or...

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

I just invented a hug machine. It’s solar powered so you can use it when you feel depressed, like on a cloudy day. Shit.

What is it, you ask?” Kali said, trying to cover her surprise with nonchalant words. “I haven’t thought of a name yet. Got any ideas?””Shit,” the pirate said, said of. The gag made elocution difficult.”That...

think outside the box” remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?

I think I must have invented you on one of those days I was really bored.

Every invention began as an imagination.

When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.

The discovery of the telephone has made us acquainted with many strange phenomena. It has enabled us, amongst other things, to establish beyond a doubt the fact that electric currents actually traverse the earth’s crust....

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

To save the environment—and my childhood memories, I merged a gas station pump with a jukebox. Look, my car now runs on 80s music!

The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

Great triumphs of engineering genius—the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail— … are rather invention than engineering proper.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

What we invent, we become

Rebels revel in rewriting reality’s restrictions.

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men’s hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression ‘structureless germs’.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

That was a stupid idea I made up while drunk. Why did someone build that?

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them...

Desperation is the father of ingenuity.

A great idea always begins with unbounded inspiration.

This box is useless,” said Alliance 6-7349.Should it be what they claim of it,” said Harmony 9-2642, “then it would bring ruin to the Department of Candles.

Captivity ends when creativity begins

Novelists invent characters; poets invent themselves.

I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?

Everything either is, was or will be. Time doesn’t really exist. It’s just something we have made up that makes it easier for us to grasp the universe.

I had a dream about you. The blue sky matched the blue in your eyes, though you had a few more clouds in your irises. When you got sad, you didn’t cry—you rained, and that’s...

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

I thought the invention of mobile phone was to save our time & money, be we are doing exactly the opposite.

Le bonheur n’est pas une chose; c’est une pensée. Ce n’est pas un fait; c’est une invention. Ce n’est pas un état; c’est une action. Disons le mot: le bonheur est création.[…] C’est une praxis,...

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power...

I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.

[From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’]Beauvoir herself was as devout an atheist as she had once been a Catholic, and she dismisses...

Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of “inspiration.” It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge — that is to say,...

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries...

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

It’s fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half...

The fools will forever pay the wise for the things that takes only wisdom to do successfully.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone,...

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves...

One must always account for the vagaries of truth.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

I want to create a cologne that smells like a whisper. It’ll be for all the secret admirers out there.

wow weird woo.