Inventor Quotes by Woody Norris, Nguyen Quyen, Ernest Hemingway, Martin Cooper, Deborah Meier, Nathan Eldon Tanner and many others.
There’s a radical – and wonderful – new idea here… that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people’s ideas, analyzers of evidence, and makers of their own personal marks on the world. Its an idea with revolutionary implications. If we take it seriously.
Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.
In our case, I, a working engineer, inventor and scientist, am bringing new innovation to campaigning to enable a grass-roots movement.
Your nightmare existence in a trunk is over… At long last you will be recognized as the inventor of photography. This picture will prove it to all the world. (On his discovery of the first photograph, made by Joseph NicГ©phore NiГ©pce.)
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.
My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference.
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple
As single-mom female inventor, there was no path for that, so really I don’t think people took me seriously for a really long time. Certainly the Miracle Mop being my first successful product, people started to pay attention, and I guess now they really pay attention.
Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders – not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.
CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I’ll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.
It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.
I’m first and foremost a biological explorer. I’ve looked all over the world for answers. Secondly, I’m an ecological designer, and by that I mean I attempt to work with constellations of nature to create technological forms. So I’m part engineer, part ecologist, part inventor, really.
If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.
IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE
I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
Inventors don’t have time for married life.
You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities – and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours.
A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.
Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.
I’m wary of the word ‘inventing,’ because in the British psyche the word ‘inventor’ is immediately linked with ‘mad’. For me, inventing is problem-solving.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven‘t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
I can’t recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open – any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors tried to keep tight control, and consequent ill fate
I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.
If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.
Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of its first inventor.
I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull craft of experimental psychology.
My dad was an inventor, and I think I’ve always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.
Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
I don’t think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.
I’m an inventor.
I’m never proud of myself. No. People are always proud of me, but I think people can always be greater than me. People call me great; I don’t think that I’m great. But they say, “You are the inventor for the word reggae, you are great.” And I have to say, “Okay, thank you.”
I am an inventor of music.
There is no substitute for hard work.
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.
Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented
The Inventor Of Google Glass Says It Could Outsource Our Brains
Being an independent inventor is tough. You develop a product, patent it, then you’re looking for someone who will see the benefit from this technology. You assume all the investment and all the risk. It can be a challenge.
An inventor’s path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
I’ve been an amature inventor for a long time.
There’s nothing on it worthwhile, and we’re not going to watch it in this household, and I don’t want it in your intellectual diet.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together.
It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantitГ© negligeable.
I think [Nikola Tesla] was always like that. And so it was inevitable that he would be an inventor. Because it was so easy for him to think fourth-dimensionally, dynamically. It wasn’t just a static thing with him. In other words, it isn’t the way an architect thinks, which is essentially static.
Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.
I don’t know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn’t influenced by something].
My father was a brilliant inventor and businessman. He taught me to appreciate the opportunities that America offers to innovators.
An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.
I want to be an inventor in the real sense.
The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one thing, many of them were inventors who had come into business that way.
All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.
The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the aeroplane, though it will have specialized uses, and in these it will surpass the aeroplane. The fact that you can land at your front door is the reason you can’t carry heavy loads efficiently.
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
I love my life. I love being an inventor.
Don’t settle, as with all matters of the heart you’ll know when you find it
I’m an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.
I’m not a designer, I’m an inventor.
Japan‘s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.
An amazing invention – but who would ever want to use one?
An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.
Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.