Gun Quote by Lonnie Johnson

“The invention that most people know me for is the Super Soaker water gun. I knew the gun worked well, and I knew it would be successful. I did not realize how successful it would be.” quote by Lonnie Johnson — Download Open image

“The invention that most people know me for is the Super Soaker water gun. I knew the gun worked well, and I knew it would be successful. I did not realize how successful it would be.”

Lonnie Johnson

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Lady Luck is indifferent. She smiles sometimes, and she frowns sometimes.

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I have a collection of SuperSoakers. I have managed to keep most of them.

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I can remember times when we'd be having parties, and people would be dancing and everything and I would be sitting there in the…

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I didn't want to grow old and find that I didn't do what I could have done, that I didn't put my best foot…

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I consider myself a general practitioner. I do electronic things. I do toys and water things, mechanical stuff. I'm very, very flexible.

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Peer review is fine, as long as you're making incremental improvements to a technology.

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I decided I could develop a toy and get some revenue from that and then use that revenue to really become an inventor and…

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