The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane the automobile the computer - says little about his intelligence but speaks volumes about his laziness.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Inventions have long since reached their limit and I see no hope for further development.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.