Inventor Quotes

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. (Buckminster Fuller)
I am an inventor of music. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
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. View quote
Nikola Tesla
We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated. View quote
Norbert Wiener
I quickly realized that you had to have a good idea of the future if you were going to succeed as an inventor. View quote
Ray Kurzweil
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. View quote
Johnny Carson
The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization. View quote
Alexander Graham Bell
Death is the inventor of God. View quote
José Saramago
It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantité negligeable. View quote
Carl Jung
The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real success in business is to be found in achievements comparable rather with those of the artist or the scientist, of the inventor or statesman. And the joys sought in the profession of business must be like their joys and not the mere vulgar satisfaction which is experienced in the acquisition of money, in the exercise of power or in the frivolous pleasure of mere winning. View quote
Louis Brandeis
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. View quote
Oswald Spengler
A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction, he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions, but also entire world view, he is the inventor of entire forms of like. View quote
Paul Karl Feyerabend
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. View quote
Charles Kettering
Others such as these met him in the outer mountain and thought to mock him because he had not learned letters. And Antony said to them, 'What do you say? Which is first, mind or letters? And which is the cause of which- mind of letters or letters of mind.' And when they answered mind is first and the inventor of letters, Antony said, 'Whoever, therefore, has a sound mind has not need of letters. View quote
Athanasius of Alexandria
It isn't easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed. -Hephaestus. View quote
Rick Riordan
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. View quote
Jane Smiley
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. View quote
Julian Casablancas
Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments, or trials for one successful one. In the realm of electricity or of mechanics there is no objection to this. But when such rejected failures involve a torture of animals, sometimes fearful in its character, there is a distinct objection to it. (Henry Jacob Bigelow)
I've been an amature inventor for a long time. View quote
Billy Sheehan
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. View quote
David Antin
I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better. View quote
Daniel Ek
I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians. View quote
Michael Nyman