Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

We need innovation and creativity.

Invention breeds invention.

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

I'm an inventor.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

Doubt is the father of invention.

The world's been pretty good at coming up with new ways of doing things.

Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.

I believe that your creativity increases when you evolve with changing technology.

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

I'm going to keep innovating.

The big deal for me has always been innovation.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

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

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

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

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.