Invention Quotes

"Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it's going to work, it's not an experiment." "Most large organizations embrace the idea of invention, but are not willing to suffer the string of failed experiments necessary to get there." "The best way to predict the future is to invent it" "There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery." "Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood. You do something that you genuinely believe in, that you have conviction about, but for a long period of time, well-meaning people may criticize that effort. When you receive criticism from we" "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." "Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain" "The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention." "The inventor looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him seeking materialization" "The things that haven't been done before are the things that break new paths." "Humans were always far better at inventing tools than using them wisely" "I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use" "From phones to cars to medicine, technology touches every part of our lives. If you can create technology, you can change the world" "Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos" "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 envision alternatives" "Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves" "Necessity is the mother of invention" "The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth." "Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry" "I made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That's how I came up with a solution."