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.
A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
Originality is going back to the origin and finding an empty chair. Would you gladly sit on it? No thank you. It is empty for a reason. That’s where my ass was. Not where my head is now.
Someone told me that creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.
Want, the mistress of invention.
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.
Invention is both the institution of problem solving and advancing human obsolescence. We were naturally selected to replace ourselves.
All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction, he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions, but also entire world view, he is the inventor of entire forms of like.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions to his censure.
For many things we can find substitutes, but there is not now, nor will there ever be, a substitute for creative thought.
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves—the creature of habits and infirmities.
Electric telegraphs, printing, gas, For a year of the Age of Gold.
Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.
Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.
Imagination is the outreaching of mind... the bombardment of the conscious mind with ideas, impulses, images and every sort of psychic phenomena welling up from the preconscious. It is the capacity to "dream dreams and see visions..."
Creativity perpetually invents itself.
I have always found It in mine own experience an easier matter to devise manie and profitable inventions, than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.
May I pack all inventions in burlapsand hide them in corners of Einsteins’ brains.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple of them and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
This is a man's invention and his hand.
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
We issued gorged with knowledge, and I spoke: 'Why, Sirs, they do all this as well as we." "They hunt old trails" said Cyril, "very well; But when did woman ever yet invent?'
Creativity is an integral part of our personality.
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.