The core of inventing engraving typography, a great technological invention, is the invention of its theory.
Edward Lear who invented such imaginary things as runcible spoons is also credited with popularizing if not inventing limericks.
He invested all his money in inventing a new kind of weapon that could work by itself.
The software development industry is constantly re-inventing itself, cannibalizing old ideas and approaches and transforming them into something new, different, and hopefully a bit better.
From inventing new languages to rewriting libraries, the strange drive to ignore and redo what is already there and already works has been the cause of a lot of software failures.
WSDL borrows very thoughtfully from other efforts to avoid re-inventing the wheel.
The workers in our factory have succeeded in inventing new machines more than once, but many times.
Nietzsche wrote: "All great artists and thinkers [are] great workers, indefatigable not only in inventing, but also in rejecting, sifting, transforming, ordering."
When I think of Edison and the trials he went through inventing one of the most important forms of technology we have today, I remember that no one succeeds without failure and the ability to push on.
We have not stopped inventing and innovating, in Silicon Valley or in Detroit.
Therefore, the tricky question when you’re inventing for the developing world is creating the right level of technology.
Once upon a time, there was a tavern owner in Benares. He had a hard working bartender, who was always trying to be helpful by inventing new ways of doing things.
Lin is a typical geek who often spends days in the laboratory inventing new things.
Some Expos are seminal events: GM at the 1939 New York Expo is credited with inventing the superhighway system that transformed the US less than 20 years later.
Edison had a remarkable aptitude for inventing new things.
In the workers' education in enterprises, offering creating and inventing courses is the best way to improve the workers' creative ability.
Well, in addition to inventing the modern Olympic Games, Britain also gave the world its most popular sports.
I became quite an adept in inventing new ways of keeping the children occupied and amused.
The large wood carvings are very concrete in form, for they are covered with animals and figures, even where those are of my own inventing.
This is the spirit of inventing and creating.
Yet the alchemists had their triumphs, inventing brilliant new pigments, perfecting the old - red lead oxide, yellow arsenic sulfide, a little copper and vinegar and you've got bright green verdigris.
