Inventor Quotes

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

Writing, Creative, Read

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.
Steve Jobs

Understand, Study, Until

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

Love, Success, Food

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

Television, Radio, Eating

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

Person, Makes, Believes

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

Artist, Objective, Mechanic

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Alfred Hitchcock

Understand, Inspired, Sound

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

Greed, Injustice, Current

I'm an inventor.
Lady Gaga

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

Name, Camera, Invention

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Charles Kettering

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

Once, Times, Simply

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

Education, Seriously, Simply

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
Daniel Webster

Sense, House, Invention

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
J. M. Coetzee

Tell, Writer, Stranger

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

Path, Head, Groans

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.
Freeman Dyson

Great, Human, Him

I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.
Jane Smiley

Book, Writing, Him

I am an inventor of music.
Igor Stravinsky

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

Words, Him, Act

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.
Tim Berners Lee

Life, Mind, Public

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

Special, Place, Quite

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

Thinking, Thought, Wanted

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

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

Tell, Honestly, Device

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

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

Heart, Consider

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

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

Technology, Dad, View

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