Brit Morin Quotes

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

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

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.

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

Invention is the mother of necessities.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.

Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.

Necessity, mother of invention.

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.

I guess they say, "Necessity is the mother of invention" because you have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it.

The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have the seeds of invention within them. Economy and efficiency move their relentless tinkering and yet the real motive often seems to be aesthetic. The mind that first designed a cutter bar is not far different from a mind that can take the intractable steel of an outsized sickle blade and make it hum in the end. The question is how to reduce the simplicity that constitutes a problem ("It's simple; it's broke.") to the greater simplicity that constitutes a solution.

Innovation is new stuff that is made useful.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof expression, new inventions, new discoveries, and new solutions....It's exactly what children's play seems to be about and explains why so many people have come to think that children's play is so important a part of childhood--and beyond.

Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!

What one man can invent, another can discover.

Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.

Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.