Edward Witten (1951) American theoretical physicist
as quoted by K.C. Cole, "A Theory of Everything" New York Times Magazine (1987) Oct.18
HermAphroditeZine, Autumn 1999
Edward Witten (1951) American theoretical physicist
as quoted by K.C. Cole, "A Theory of Everything" New York Times Magazine (1987) Oct.18
“I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.”
Harrison Birtwistle (1934) British composer
Interviewed by Dan Warburton, July 8, 1995. http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/birtwistle.html
“When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission.”
Tim Berners-Lee (1955) British computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web
Berners-Lee T., Net Neutrality: This is Serious (June 2006) http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/144 <br class="br">Context: When I invented the web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA. … Democracy depends on freedom of speech. Freedom of connection, with any application, to any party, is the fundamental social basis of the Internet, and, now, the society based on it.<br>Let's see whether the United States is capable as acting according to its important values, or whether it is, as so many people are saying, run by the misguided short-term interested of large corporations.<br>I hope that Congress can protect net neutrality, so I can continue to innovate in the internet space. I want to see the explosion of innovations happening out there on the Web, so diverse and so exciting, continue unabated.
Paul Virilio (1932–2018) French philosopher
Politics of the Very Worst, New York: Semiotext(e), 1999, p. 89
“I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.”
Gregory Colbert (1960) Canadian photographer
As quoted in "Dances With Whales" by Alan Riding in The New York Times (22 April 2002) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/arts/dances-with-whales.html
“The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.”
Nicole Krauss The History of Love
Source: The History of Love
“I have a gift for inventing fantasies with extraordinary speed.”
Paulo Coelho book Adultery
Source: Adultery
Italo Svevo book Zeno's Conscience
È così che a forza di correr dietro a quelle immagini, io le raggiunsi. Ora so di averle inventate. Ma inventare è una creazione, non già una menzogna.
Source: La coscienza di Zeno (1923), P. 337; p. 404.
“The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.”
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
Source: 1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925), Ch. 6: "The Nineteenth Century"