Invention Quotes

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

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.

Remember: It’s not innovation until it gets built.

Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.

The engineer always believes he is trying something without error, but the truth of the matter is that each new structure can be a new trial. In the meantime the layman, whose spokesman is the poet or the writer, can be threatened by both the failures and the successes. Such is the nature not only of science and engineering, but of all human endeavors.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Chance Favors the Connected Mind

What one man can invent, another can discover.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone—that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

What is the use of a new-born child?

Sometimes you have to keep ideas for decades before they have any use.

I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Eureka!

Luxury, rather than necessity, is the mother of invention.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.