Top 55 Inventor Quotes

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.

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.

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I’m always inventing something.

As far as animatronics, I started out in college working for Tom Holman. He was the inventor of the THX sound system. Through him, I got an internship at Lucasfilm.

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

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

A lot of mythology surrounds British inventor Geoffrey Pyke. He supposedly made people come to his bedside to see his designs because getting up and getting dressed took too long.

You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

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

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

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’d like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

I want to be an inventor in the real sense.

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

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

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I’m an inventor.

I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that’s not true: I went in in 1956, came out in 1959, was working at the University of Washington, and I came up with an idea, from reading a magazine article, for a new kind of a phonograph tone arm.

An inventor’s path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

I’m an inventor. I don’t enjoy running the business.

When I was 22, I realised I wanted to be an inventor.

As the inventor of MyPillow, I have been a proponent of American-made products for decades.

I’m the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head – I don’t have to be in the lab working and sweating.

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

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 not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.

My father was a brilliant inventor and businessman. He taught me to appreciate the opportunities that America offers to innovators.

The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.

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

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.

I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn’t. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.

I spent three years there and encountered great teachers who gave me enough stimulation to last me for the rest of my life – Josef Albers, painter; Buckminster Fuller, inventor; Max Dehn, the mathematician, and many others. Through them, I came to understand the total commitment required if one must be an artist.

My father, a former Air India official, but essentially an inventor at heart – a man who loved to sometimes break machines just so that he could have the joy of re-engineering them – was a twinkly-eyed, ever-optimistic man of science.

I am an inventor of music.

Years ago, Barry Diller asked me to be a judge on a pilot for an inventor show on USA, and when it was over, the producer, Ken Mok, took me out to dinner and really got me talking. It was a long dinner. Afterward, he said, ‘One day, I’m going to write your movie’.

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

Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor’s words in speech or writing or design.

On August 30, 1982, I get issued a copyright officially recognizing me as the inventor of e-mail.

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

American Inventor’, a show I came up with launched in 2006. It’s all of America’s greatest and wackiest inventions rolled into one with a judging panel including the legendary George Foreman.

Spanx are amazing. Thank you to the inventor of that.

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

At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?

I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don’t.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Being an independent inventor is tough. You develop a product, patent it, then you’re looking for someone who will see the benefit from this technology. You assume all the investment and all the risk. It can be a challenge.

As single-mom female inventor, there was no path for that, so really I don’t think people took me seriously for a really long time. Certainly the Miracle Mop being my first successful product, people started to pay attention, and I guess now they really pay attention.

That’s one of the advantages of being an inventor and tinkerer – I have everything I need to make what I need.

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

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.

Don’t let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

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I’m crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she’s hilarious.