Inventor Quotes

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

I am an inventor of music.

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

No one is an inventor in the fashion business. Designers recreate fashion.

Which was why, some six hours later, Alexia Maccon's daughter was born inside the head of an octomaton in the presence of her husband, a comatose werewolf dandy, and a French inventor.

O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.

PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.

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.

I've been an amature inventor for a long time.

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration.

An inventor creates something that works. An entrepreneur creates something that others will buy.

I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.

Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.

Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met the inventor of the snowboard, Steve Sanders, Mr. Burton's brother.

The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Death is the inventor of God.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.

[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes.

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.

My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.

The Inventor Of Google Glass Says It Could Outsource Our Brains

The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.

Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.

To become an artist you have to be curious.

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.

Thinking outside of the box keeps you from suffocating inside of one.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention.

I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]

The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination—not vice versa.

You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.