I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it because it is very true.
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
I think in a way I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.
The very greatest things - great thoughts discoveries inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship often pondered over in sorrow and at length established with difficulty.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
If somebody invented cigarettes today the government would not legalize them.
The government invented the Internet.
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.
The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is is that when we succeed we succeed because of our individual initiative but also because we do things together.
Today if you invent a better mousetrap the government comes along with a better mouse.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
To invent you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
If there were no God it would be necessary to invent him.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style He just goes on trying other things.
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.
AARP knows the future is bright for a generation that's going to remain healthy and vital for 10 20 30 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention.
We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
The day I made that statement about the inventing the internet I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth inventor of television we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Another hero was Tom Swift in the books. What he stood for the freedom the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.