Inventor Quotes

199 Inventor quotes by 157 unique authors

There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ...… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
My experience is that inventors come in all sizes, all nationalities, all ages. The only thing I'm sure of is that inventors are always stubborn. — Robert Dilts
Time is the best appraiser of scientific work, and I am aware that an industrial discovery rarely produces all its fruit in the hands of… — Louis Pasteur
I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot — Muriel Rukeyser
Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded… — Kenneth Burke
Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort… — Ron Chernow
The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor. — Khalil Gibran
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not… — Ray Kurzweil
I can't recall any difficulty in making the C language definition completely open - any discussion on the matter tended to mention languages whose inventors… — Dennis Ritchie
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'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better. — Daniel Ek
An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor, — Eli Whitney
An inventor is someone who makes another man rich. — David Sarnoff
Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has… — Herbert J. Muller
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel… — Steven Johnson
There's a radical - and wonderful - new idea here... that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other… — Deborah Meier
There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction… — Ridley Pearson
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....' — Thomas A. Edison
Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of… — Charles Kettering
Back in 1792, Dr. Benjamin Banneker, the famed African-American inventor and scientist in Washington, proposed a Department of Peace for the new Nation to his… — John Conyers
Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought… — Ayn Rand
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 have thought impossible. — John Milton
Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks deeply, with the… — Janine Benyus

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