Innovation Quote by Ray Dolby

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

— Charles Kettering

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

— Thomas A. Edison

To invent something, all you need is imagination and a big pile of junk.

— Albert Einstein

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

— Jeff Bezos

Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

— Ray Kurzweil

Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling with things, making contraptions. I'd see…

— Joy Mangano

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

— Thomas Heatherwick

You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.

— Bill Gates

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

— Jeff Bezos

The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.

— Mark Kurlansky

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

— Francis Bacon

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

— Mitchel Resnick