Inventor Quotes

199 Inventor quotes by 157 unique authors

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads… — Julian Simon
If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears. — Gary Gygax
The Inventor Of Google Glass Says It Could Outsource Our Brains — Sebastian Thrun
I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise. — Jason Newsted
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. — R. Buckminster Fuller
I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted… — Francis Ford Coppola
When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be… — Simon Cowell
The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't… — Freeman Dyson
It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was… — Freeman Dyson
An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches. — James Dyson
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so… — Ernest Hemingway
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm.… — Alfred Hitchcock
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. — David Hockney
Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators… — Naveen Jain
Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get… — Steve Jobs
Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not… — Daniel Kahneman
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. — Charles Kettering
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. — Charles Kettering
I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to… — Tim Berners-Lee
It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing -… — Nathan Myhrvold
Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor. — Nathan Myhrvold
We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in… — Salman Rushdie
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. — William Shakespeare

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