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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. -- Ambrose Bierce
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. -- Charles Kettering
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. -- Johnny Carson
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. -- Charles Kettering
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. -- Charles Kettering
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
The Inventor Of Google Glass Says It Could Outsource Our Brains -- Sebastian Thrun
I am an inventor of music. -- Igor Stravinsky
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. -- Mark Twain
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. -- Thomas Carlyle
I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better. -- Daniel Ek
If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice. -- George Gobel
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. -- Julian Casablancas
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. -- William Shakespeare
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise. -- Stephanie Kwolek
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. -- Rob Delaney
An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind. -- Ayn Rand
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. -- Oscar Wilde
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
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. -- John F. Kennedy
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. -- Edwin Land
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. -- Thomas Heatherwick
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
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. -- Ernest Hemingway
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. -- Chuck Close
Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business. -- James Dyson
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work. -- Nikola Tesla
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty. -- Mark Twain
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
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up. -- Aaron Patzer
I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect. -- Ray Kurzweil
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
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. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future? -- Abraham Lincoln
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. -- Oscar Wilde
I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system. -- Aaron Patzer
I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't. -- Aaron Patzer
The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible... But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won. -- Ayn Rand
Death is the inventor of God. -- Jose Saramago
Man is the inventor of stupidity. -- Remy de Gourmont
Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor. -- Francois Jacob
One must be an inventor to read well. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. -- Ray Kurzweil
I've been an amature inventor for a long time. -- Billy Sheehan
Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor. -- Nathan Myhrvold
An inventor is someone who makes another man rich. -- David Sarnoff
The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart. -- Fernando Pessoa
A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds. -- Mark Twain
I love my life. I love being an inventor. -- Jeff Bezos
Coffee and chocolate-the inventor of mocha should be sainted. -- Cherise Sinclair
I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor. -- Josie Maran
Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised. -- Judith Schaechter
The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization. -- Thomas A. Edison
I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes. -- Kit Harington
I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller. -- Scott Turow
Some sad news from Australia... the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today. -- Johnny Carson
An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor, -- Eli Whitney
I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor. -- Lady Gaga
An inventor creates something that works. An entrepreneur creates something that others will buy. -- Chris Brogan
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....' -- Thomas A. Edison
If pride really went before a fall, then, Lucifer is the inventor of pride. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor. -- Khalil Gibran
If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears. -- Gary Gygax
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. -- David Hockney
An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches. -- James Dyson
I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember. -- Tom Scholz
An inventor is he whose thoughts and imagination become things of reality by creative action. -- Debasish Mridha
Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips. -- Steven Spielberg
When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to? -- Bob Monkhouse
Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented -- Kevin Kelly
I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator. -- Kanye West
Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special. -- Kit Williams
Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others. -- H.W. Brands
If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch. -- Kathy Lette
The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor. -- Mahatma Gandhi
As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius. -- Thomas de Quincey
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market -- E. F. Schumacher
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market. -- E. F. Schumacher
[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes. -- Paul Laffoley
My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential. -- Scott McCloud
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live. -- Igor Stravinsky
I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #"? telephone . -- Mark Twain
I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians. -- Michael Nyman
I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better. -- Neil Jackson
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There must be a way to get more of these in me faster, thought the inventor of pea soup as he sat eating peas. -- Dana Gould
PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that. -- Ambrose Bierce
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. -- Charles M. Schwab
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. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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! -- George Eliot
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. -- Bette Midler
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. -- John Milton
The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility. -- Wyndham Lewis
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. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
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. -- Reginald Fessenden
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. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
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
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. -- Nathan Eldon Tanner
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? -- Erica Jong
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 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
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. -- Herbert J. Muller
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. -- Louis Pasteur
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. -- Ernst Mach
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. -- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
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. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Every idea is in the soul of its owner. No other power can shift it to another soul, that is why we have the telephone, aircraft, etc, each having its unique inventor. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
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. -- Francis Ford Coppola
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. -- Gail Carriger
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. -- Carl Reiner
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. -- Charles Kettering

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