Kevin Kelly Quotes

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

We should have more invention.

A lot of times, you think of things as being science fiction, but the creation of the ideas makes you want to solve them. Then, in solving them, they give us greater capability.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

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

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.

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.

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

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

There are many men now living who were in the habit of using the age-old expression: 'It is as impossible as flying.' The discoveries in physical science, the triumphs in invention, attest the value of the process of trial and error. In large measure, these advances have been due to experimentation.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

What's lovely about 'Eureka' is that it's a sci-fi show, but it's not monsters from outer space; it's not craziness from outer space. It's just about this community of people and what they do. These geniuses have sometimes done wonderful things and sometimes created global warming. It has this wonderful left-of-center sense of humor.

The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.

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.