Top 746 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Inventors - Page 4

Making a game is a really complicated thing.

When I started building things, obviously I was pretty bad at it. You cant be good at it from the start, and I decided to just embrace that, roll with it, and turn it into something funny.

I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

The long-term value of amplifying the intelligence of people is a lot more important than betting on sports.

Live without seeing, but be what you are.

Opportunity just exists in the air for a few minutes. If you don't obey your gut feeling right away, you've lost your chance.

Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The 14th-century builder had planted the trees in anticipation of the time, hundreds of years in the future, when the beams would need replacing. Did the carpenters plant new trees to replace the beams again a few hundred years from now?

What you need is an idea.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.

Sometimes we think of a creature like a person in a suit, but then you have limitations of two eyes and two legs - they have to see and breathe. I got more into puppetry because it offered more possibilities.

An entire generation of talented people - engineers, artists, scriptwriters, musicians, programmers - have been busy creating a whole new art form for us. The name of this new game is interactivity.

The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

I do what I did as a hobby as a kid, you know, and make a living at it. And I just feel like I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world 'cuz I get paid to make toys and play with them.

Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space.

My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.

I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they'll do whatever it takes to be successful.

Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and other have gathered the fruits. A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb.

These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a toy made of paper children use to play with. My opinion is we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles. I consider the aircraft of the future, that which will take off vertically, fly as usual and land vertically. This flying machine should have no parts in movement. The idea came from the huge power of the cyclons

I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed.

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

Science and art are not opposed.

In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

We focus on a unique form of artificial intelligence called artificial swarm intelligence.

Most inventions are based on some prior history.

Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

I do not foresee 'spaceships' to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere!

In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands.

No matter what problem you encounter, whether it's a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there's an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.

I love playing around with ideas and turning them into something useful or fun.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.

Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

Taking a vote or poll is a great simple way to take a decision, but it doesn't help a group find consensus. It actually polarizes people and highlights the differences between them. People end up getting entrenched in their views.

All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.

Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

No organization engaged in any specific field of work ever invents any important developers in that field, or adopts any important development in that field until forced to do so by outside competition.

If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.

I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years time. Today we know computers are not far from this goal.

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.

But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote a year ago, I think we might put down all their results, add them together, and then divide by the number of mathematicians, and thus find the average coefficient of error. (1908)

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.

As a medical doctor who chose a career in artificial heart technology rather than clinical practice, I decided not to take an internship, which is required for licensing. Instead, I work with invention, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, and clinical application of artificial hearts.

I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.

An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.

We're finding a third way for biologists to change the world. It's very hard to change the world when the only directions available in biology are academia and the pharmaceutical industry.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.