Inventor Quotes

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

I am an inventor of music.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

I'm an inventor.

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

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

I've been an amature inventor for a long time.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.