Inventor Quotes
Inventor Quote of the day
Some sad news from Australia... the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today.
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market
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.
To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the # telephone .
Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.
Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and prayed for light and understanding.
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
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.
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.
Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.
I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.
Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
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.
There must be a way to get more of these in me faster, thought the inventor of pea soup as he sat eating peas.
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!
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.
Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.