It's a story which I invented.
In addition I can claim to have given the German language the word "Nanokosmos", which I invented for the book, but which has since cropped up elsewhere.
Years later, technology which I invented formed the basis of a software company which employed over 1,000 people and changed the way enterprise client-server systems were built.
She begins by challenging him on the field of spoken language, as in the scene in which he's expatiating on the harmonious oneness of future mankind: " 'My system,' Sam continued, 'which I invented myself, might be called Monoman or Manunity!' "Evie [Sam's younger, favored daughter] laughed timidly, not knowing whether it was right or not.
It applies evenly and lasts until I succumb to a homemade watermelon daiquiri, which I just invented out of Appleton Estate Rum (yum), watermelon, ice and lime.
We are here to eat, and I am sat opposite Lloyd Embley, a modern-day Brummell, who also happens to be editor of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, mirror.co.uk, and a blog called icookthebestroasts.com, which I just invented, but which he could easily fill with the pictures he's taken of his own cooking (which is very highly rated – and not just by his wife).
Nokia also plans to use this technology for physical hotlinking (a term which I just invented), so you will be able to tap something like an advertisement and the webpage will appear on your device.
"This dinner represents a hallowed and important tradition, which I actually did invent," he said to shouts of laughter from a crowd that included virtually every major elected official in New York.
Wells gives a very detailed account of his showdown with Moura in Tallinn – it is the one dialogue scene in my novel hardly a word of which I had to invent – and at no point in it, or anywhere else, does he accuse Moura of being a spy, only of being "a liar and cheat".
I started to think of scientific entrepreneurship instead of the traditional science career path because I wanted to create a company to exploit fully the commercial value of a platform of technologies, some of which I had co-invented during my postdoctoral training.
It looks like both the PS3 and 360 are due for a price drop, via the Tetris effect, which I have just now invented.
