Quotes tagged ‘inventions’

“I died once. At least, the world thought I did. You know what happened? Nothing. All the money, all the buildings, all the inventions, the world didn’t care. My life, ultimately, didn’t matter. Rip is giving me the chance to help save the world. I have to take it.”

— Andrew Kreisberg, Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Phil Klemmer, Ray Palmer / The Atom, Brandon Routh, imdb.com

“You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.”

— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com

“When I have made one zillion dollars from my rocket gum invention you will eat those words! Or rather you will chew those words and blow a bubble with them.”

— David S. Rosenthal, Lorelai Gilmore, Lauren Graham, imdb.com

“They're my latest invention. Stay put socks, they never fall down.”

— Bob Camp, John Kricfalusi, Stimpson J. "Stimpy" Cat (voice), Billy West, imdb.com

“To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.”

— Galileo Galilei, amazon.com

“I will never understand the bathrooms in this country. Why is it that the doors on the stalls do not come all the way down to the floor?”

— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“Take toilet paper, for example. Do you realize that toilet paper has not changed in my lifetime? It's just paper on a cardboard roll, that's it. And in ten thousand years, it will still be exactly the same because really, what else can they do?”

— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“When we started with AOL 30 years ago, no one believed the Internet would amount to much, let alone be a big industry, but these things come out of nowhere and surprise you.”

— Steve Case, usatoday.com

“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com

“What one man can invent, another can discover.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle, amazon.com

“If the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?”

— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com

“I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization. Our hands evolved to grip tools, all right—including our own. You see, thinkers, inventors, and scientists are usually geeks, and geeks have a harder time getting…”

— Ernest Cline, amazon.com

“For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.”

— Ernest Cline, amazon.com

“You know, we might’ve fucked up the planet, sucking out all the oil, melting the ice caps, allowing ska music to flourish, but we made Coca-Cola, so goddamn it, people weren’t all bad.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

“When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.”

— Joe Hill, amazon.com

“I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization. Our hands evolved to grip tools, all right—including our own. You see, thinkers, inventors, and scientists are usually geeks, and geeks have a harder time getting…”

— Ernest Cline, amazon.com

“For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things.”

— Ernest Cline, amazon.com

“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.”

— Dave Barry, books.google.com