To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.
Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.
There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember . . . You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.
Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure of dancing with somebody in an unplanned and spontaneous way, when you're free to invent and they're free to invent and you're neither one hampering the other - that's a very pleasant social form.
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.
The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written. Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.
All of our punishment institutions, including jails, laws, church confessionals, and so forth, are systems of illusion. The order of the universe, the infinite justice of yin and yang, naturally takes care of all motion and compensation. We don't need to invent arbitrary ways to make balance with punishments.
In my heart I believe that biology is the beginning and the end of everything. It's the biggest source of ideas, the biggest source of invention. Nobody can invent better than nature and so if you like nature is my biggest source of inspiration.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: