Joe Morton Quotes

NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.

We can go into no mechanic shop, into no manufactory of any description, upon no farm or plantation, or travel a mile on our railroads or in our steamboats, without seeing evidence of our originality and witnessing the fruits of our ingenuity and enterprise.

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

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

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

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

We should have more invention.

The possibilities in sci-fi are wonderful. The subject is bigger than everything we know.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

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.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Nations of great genius exhibit great patience.

You cannot bet against the American worker. Don’t bet against American ingenuity

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.

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.

That impresses me more, inventin' electricity.

You could be a poet, an artist, a comedian - if you're in the culture of innovation then you embrace those who do and you're going to protect the science curriculum in the classroom because you understand the meaning and the value of it. And science discoveries don't scare you. You say, "Give me more science", not less. "Give me more technology", not less.

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

For me, being an innovator doesn't mean being more intelligent, more rich, it's not a word, it's an action.

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world. It's probably not going to be nearly as interesting as depicted in science fiction as far as the bad things go.

Necessity is the spur of genius.