Inventor Quotes · Page 3

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

— Fernando Pessoa

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

— Josie Maran

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

— Charles Kettering

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

— James Dyson

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

— Johnny Carson

My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.

— Scott McCloud

I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

— Benjamin Franklin

The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.

— Trevor Baylis

You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James…

— David Antin

Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and…

— Alexander Graham Bell

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

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

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

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

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

— Horace Mann

I'm first and foremost a biological explorer. I've looked all over the world for answers. Secondly, I'm an ecological designer, and by…

— John Todd

I was always a mad scientist type - an inventor and just a generally inventive person, and that has remained the same.…

— Sam Lamott

“That room was Rolandsen’s world. Rolandsen was not just irresponsibility and inebriation, he was also great thinker and inventor. There was a…

— Knut Hamsun

“ '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

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

— Mike Pesca

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

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

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.

— Rob Delaney

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

— Gene Wilder

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

— Kevin Kelly

There must be a way to get more of these in me faster, thought the inventor of pea soup as he sat…

— Dana Gould

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

— Thomas de Quincey

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

— Kanye West

The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and…

— Abraham Lincoln

When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its…

— Nikola Tesla

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

— Oscar Wilde

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

An inventor creates something that works. An entrepreneur creates something that others will buy.

— Chris Brogan

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

— Alexander Pope

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

— Muriel Rukeyser