Inventor Quotes · Page 5

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor…'

— Thomas A. Edison

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

— Steve Jobs

I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the # telephone .

— Mark Twain

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

— Paul Laffoley

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

— Kit Williams

Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.

— Margaret E. Knight

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

— Ayn Rand

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

— Bruce Springsteen

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand…

— Thomas A. Edison

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig…

— Alfred Hitchcock

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and…

— J. M. Coetzee

We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think…

— Salman Rushdie

“The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he…

— Alexander Graham Bell

AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage…

— Lester Thurow

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build…

— John F. Kennedy

“Well, it just goes to show you,” the inventor said as he flipped through the pages of notes and ideas, “It is…

— Joseph Lallo

Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an…

— Julian Simon

"Joy" is based, albeit loosely, on the life of Joy Mangano, an entrepreneur, inventor and QVC shopping network star with the mega-selling…

— Kenneth Turan

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things.…

— Steve Jobs

The work of the inventor consists of conceptualizing, combining, and ordering what is possible according to the laws of nature. This inner…

— Friedrich Dessauer

Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can…

— Horace Mann

“ 'Reedlike, that’s what Hedy Kiesler is, sweet and reedlike, and when she wants to talk to you she doesn’t lean over…

— Richard Rhodes

In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of…

— Seneca the Younger

A South Korean inventor has finally created the robot that mankind has been waiting for. Scientists who have been worried about the…

— Mike Pesca

When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow,…

— Tom Preston-Werner

“Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges.”

— Stephen King

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

— Thomas A. Edison

I thought I wanted to be an inventor but then discovered you couldn't study inventing!

— Thomas Heatherwick

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

— E. F. Schumacher

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

— Shannon L. Alder

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

— David Hockney

Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

— Steven Spielberg

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?

— Abbas ibn Firnas

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab…

— Woody Norris

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

— Frontinus

An inventor is simply a fellow who didn't take his education too seriously.

— Charles Kettering

“Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.”

— Amit Kalantri

Some sad news from Australia... the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today.

— Johnny Carson

As the inventor of MyPillow, I have been a proponent of American-made products for decades.

— Mike Lindell

As an inventor, it's a rite of passage to have an engine. I'd like to have my own engine someday.

— Lonnie Johnson