An inventor creates something that works. An entrepreneur creates something that others will buy. — Chris Brogan Copy Share Image
Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Having a vision for what you want is not enough...Vision without execution is hallucination — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious. — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
There must be a way to get more of these in me faster, thought the inventor of pea soup as he sat… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
“A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved.1 —CHARLES KETTERING, AMERICAN ENGINEER, HOLDER OF 186 PATENTS, INVENTOR OF THE ELECTRICAL STARTING MOTOR, LEADED… — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
As a kid, I wanted to be an inventor and realizing that being an artist is like being an inventor because you… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
There is the sheer amount of Franklin's wisdom. And the talent. Franklin played four instruments. He was the nation's leading scientist and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system… — Ernst Alexanderson Copy Share Image
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Television was first conceived to be used as some kind of telescope, not for broadcasting. Originally, Sworkin, the inventor of television, wanted… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Being an independent inventor is tough. You develop a product, patent it, then you're looking for someone who will see the benefit… — Lonnie Johnson Copy Share Image
I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“My Belle. I'm so proud of you. Look at what you created here." Belle blushed. "I didn't create it, Papa. It's Hugo's… — Random House Disney Copy Share Image
I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image