Charles Babbage Quotes

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

Invention breeds invention.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

We should have more invention.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

I like creating new things.

Some people are way less creative than you wish they were.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

If I look into my past, I was definitely into inventors. I was into stories of Edison and Tesla and da Vinci and all these guys making stuff in their garage.

I like to create new things.

Pretty much all of my inventions come about the same way. I have an everyday problem or something that I'm too lazy to do, so I make a machine that does it for me.

In innovation, you're trying to create something from nothing.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion.

Giving calls for genius.