Been Quote by Henry Petroski

I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just…

— James Cameron

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

— Paul Simon

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or…

— David Antin

“We can better understand a thing when we know its history. How did it come about? Who if anyone invented or pioneered it?  Why? ”

— Gary Hoover

I thought I wanted to be an inventor but then discovered you couldn't study inventing!

— Thomas Heatherwick

I'd been taking things apart and inventing things since I was a little kid... I still have memories as a child trying to really…

— Martin Cooper

I've always been interested in mechanical things. I think I must have been heavily influenced by my father, who is also very good with…

— Jim Peebles

I was always fascinated by how things work and learning about them.

— Eugene Parker

I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the…

— Whitfield Diffie

Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion.

— Kellan Lutz

I took my son to an exhibition about inventing things, and he was so inspired he started collecting toilet rolls and empty bottles for…

— Ben Miller

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and…

— Ray Kurzweil