A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
R. Buckminster Fuller

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Charles Kettering

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Charles Kettering

As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.
Alex Chiu

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
Julian Casablancas

I am an inventor of music.
Igor Stravinsky

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.
Ray Kurzweil

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.
Nikola Tesla

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
Oswald Spengler

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.
David Antin

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.
Tom Scholz

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.
Ray Kurzweil

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

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.
Paul Watzlawick

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce

Man is the inventor of stupidity.
Remy de Gourmont

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
E. F. Schumacher

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.
Kit Williams

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson