Inventors Quotes

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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
I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise. — Jason Newsted
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
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
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
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
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. — Mark Twain
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors. — Voltaire
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or… — Walt Whitman
Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm… — Jonathan Franzen
This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the… — C.S. Lewis
I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it to looking for… — Jorge Luis Borges
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and are… — Steve Wozniak
Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath… — James A. Baldwin
Inventors don't have time for married life. — Nikola Tesla
At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet… — Gustave Le Bon
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped… — Mark Twain

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