Inventors Quotes
70 quotes by 63 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive…
— Alasdair MacIntyre
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Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of…
— Alfred Rosenberg
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The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.
— Ayn Rand
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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Work outside of school hours was a necessity at an early age, and with such time as I had I turned toward interests of my…
— Chester Carlson
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After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes…
— Lin Yutang
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It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous…
— Kit Williams
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Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of no edification, but…
— Pope Innocent I
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The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular…
— George Henry Lewes
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What is called economic progress is the joint effect of the activities of the three progressive groups-or classes-of the savers, the scientist-inventors, and the entrepreneurs,…
— Ludwig von Mises
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People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
— John Thomas Sladek
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Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or the other! ...…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one…
— Jacob Bronowski
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I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to…
— Tama J. Kieves
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