Inventor Quotes

199 Inventor quotes by 157 unique authors

Next came the patent laws. These began in England in 1624, and in this country with the adoption of our Constitution. Before then any man… — Abraham Lincoln
Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to Authors and Inventors… — James Madison
Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those… — Irenaeus of Lyons
The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind-computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who… — Daniel H. Pink
The Unexpected stalks a farm in big boots like a vagrant bent on havoc. Not every farmer is an inventor, but the good ones have… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live. — Igor Stravinsky
Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no… — Unknown Author
Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and prayed for light… — Nathan Eldon Tanner
I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. — Ray Kurzweil
Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And… — Steve Wozniak
I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor. — Josie Maran
When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to? — Bob Monkhouse
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of… — J M Coetzee
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe… — David Antin
That is the trouble with many inventors; they lack patience. They lack the willingness to work a thing out slowly and clearly and sharply in… — Nikola Tesla
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred… — Plato
There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never… — David Brewster
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and… — Charles Caleb Colton
The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever… — Alexander Graham Bell

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