Inventor Quotes · Page 4

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

— Nikola Tesla

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Ambrose Bierce

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

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

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

— Ayn Rand

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

— Kathy Lette

We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world,…

— Ayah Bdeir

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of…

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic 'right-brain' thinkers…

— Daniel H. Pink

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…

— John Milton

Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception.…

— Jonathan Franzen

Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of…

— Pope Innocent I

My father, a former Air India official, but essentially an inventor at heart - a man who loved to sometimes break machines…

— Barkha Dutt

A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

“is a well-known builder and inventor from another village. Immediately when I met him, he asked me for a workshop of 20x20…

— Steve the Noob

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great…

— Aaron Patzer

Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did…

— Irenaeus of Lyons

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other…

— Martin Luther

For one thing, there are many "inventions" that are not patentable. The "inventor" of the supermarket, for example, conferred great benefits on…

— Milton Friedman

The great brainwave of the inventors of Christianity: "God is love!" And then? What does it change? You may always preach a…

— Francois Cavanna

Creativity shouldn't be seen as something otherworldly. It shouldn't be thought of as a process reserved for artists and inventors and other…

— Jonah Lehrer

Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“You cannot make one invent at gun point. Forget the movies, and think about pampering inventors, not threatening them”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

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

— Thomas A. Edison

“I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?”

— Ryan Lilly

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

— Gail Borden

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

— Mark Twain

If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears.

— Gary Gygax

When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?

— Bob Monkhouse

“The case of the inventor who is duped by his own invention emphasizes our need for circumspection.”

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

— Judith Schaechter

“He makes you feel that if you only had a little more time, you, too, might be an inventor.”

— Helen Keller

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

— Les Paul

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

— Tommy Hilfiger

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it…

— Neil Jackson

I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes.

— Kit Harington

IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE

— Thomas A. Edison

Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.

— Lori Greiner