Inventor Quotes · Page 12

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Billy Sheehan

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those…

— Reginald Fessenden

“When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

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

It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor,…

— Mark Twain

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

— Les Paul

“Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

— Charles Kettering

Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art…

— Steve Jobs

This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

One of the things I have taken for granted, in terms of how technology works in the world, is the people that…

— William Gibson

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no…

— Ovid

That's one of the advantages of being an inventor and tinkerer - I have everything I need to make what I need.

— Lonnie Johnson

The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the…

— Emile Berliner

The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.

— Thomas A. Edison

I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.

— Kanye West

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Lonnie Johnson

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an…

— Thomas A. Edison

We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the…

— Oswald Spengler

Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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

— Charles Kettering

“ '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