Inventor Quotes · Page 5

“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

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

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

— Mike Lindell

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

— Johnny Carson

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

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Kit Harington

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of…

— Voltaire

My experience is that inventors come in all sizes, all nationalities, all ages. The only thing I'm sure of is that inventors…

— Robert Dilts

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of…

— Erica Jong

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by…

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Ayah Bdeir

It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and…

— Carl Jung

My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had…

— Chuck Close

great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of…

— Elizabeth Charles

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

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

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

— Francois Cavanna

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

— Milton Friedman

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

The inventor and the research man are confused because they both examine results of physical or chemical operations. But they are exact…

— Reginald Fessenden

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

— Mark Twain

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

— Lori Greiner

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

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

— Kit Williams

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

— Paul Laffoley

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

— Margaret E. Knight

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

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

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

— Ayn Rand

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

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

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

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

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

— Kathy Lette