invention

best practices are useful reference points, but they must come with a warning label : The more you rely on external intelligence, the less you will value an internal idea. And this is the age of the idea

If necessity is the mother of invention, then dissatisfaction must be its father.

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

Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation.

Create lightning bolt ideas during brainstorms by causing disturbances in your atmosphere.

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.

The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies.

As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful ends. Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility.

You didn__ create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I handed you an invention you had never seen before, you wouldn__ know it__ purpose, and the invention itself wouldn__ be able to tell you either. Only the creator or the owner__ manual could reveal it__ purpose.

At the U of U, we were inventing a new language. One of us would contribute a verb, another a noun, then a third person would figure out ways to string the elements together to actually say something.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received _ hatred. The great creators _ the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors _ stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.

I told [John Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted 'Mary had a little lamb', etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly.[On first words spoken on a phonograph.]

Apparently, the glasses didn__ need to be connected to the internet for the wearer to poke into someone__ personal life. Even though a search engine could lead to an individual__ address, the browser couldn__ actually physically take you there. What had this inventor done? Did he have any idea?

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.

5. That people do not believe in you or in your ideas does not necessary mean that you are not good or that your ideas are not good enough. The problem is not with you but with them. For every great invention, we have today encountered this opposition. If you, therefore want to be great you must learn not to live your life based on the opinion of others but on your convictions.

If where we are now and whatever we are going through does not motivate us to leave this world better than the way we met it, we are in this world for wrong reasons.

A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.[On his inability to keep for himself a profitable income from his invention of the Spinning Mule.]