Innovation Quote by Eli Whitney Download Open image “An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,” — Eli Whitney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Innovation Invention Inventor Valuable Worthless
Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough. — Julie Newmar Copy Share Image
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise. — Jason Newsted Copy Share Image
An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected. — Eli Whitney Copy Share Image
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its… — Eli Whitney Copy Share Image
I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with. — Eli Whitney Copy Share Image
I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to… — Eli Whitney Copy Share Image
You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to… — Eli Whitney Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In the innovation age customer experience is key. Your impression defines their expression” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
I have tremendous admiration for companies with the kind of pioneering spirit and innovation eBay has demonstrated from day one. — Bonnie Hammer Copy Share Image
Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how… — Anton Zeilinger Copy Share Image
Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that. — Sarah Barthel Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
I'd take garbage, and I'd glue them together and create inventions. — Ann Makosinski Copy Share Image
“Some innovations just don’t attract enough economic or social demand: just as supersonic flight and manned space flight stagnated after the 1970s, today (in… — Martin J. Rees Copy Share Image