I think we can be the very best place to start a business to grow a business to invent a new technology to change the world to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do it always ends up being more about technology and sets and flash and dash forgetting the main thing which is interesting people saying interesting important things.

With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary but in the same sense it's also very exciting.

In some cases inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator or as an investor or a board member I just find that hugely satisfying.

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

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

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life contemplation meditation.

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

Telephone n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

I had a teacher he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City and he said 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.

Thought is the original source of all wealth all success all material gain all great discoveries and inventions and of all achievement.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

Anything that won't sell I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility and utility is success.

In the 18th century James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which at the same time assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

What business has science and capitalism got bringing all these new inventions into the works before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

What we must understand is that the industries processes and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

People think of the inventor as a screwball but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

I'm proud of my invention but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.