A Quote by Thomas Heatherwick

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

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Thomas Heatherwick
English - Designer
Born: February 17, 1970

Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.

Alexander Graham Bell

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

Al Gore

Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.

Walter O'Brien

The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.

Donald Sadoway

I thought I wanted to be an inventor but then discovered you couldn't study inventing!

Thomas Heatherwick

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

Alan Alda

A man should keep inventing and re-inventing himself.

Puneet Issar

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.

Woody Norris

Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire.

Mike Cloud

What you hear depends on how you focus your ear. We're not talking about inventing a new language, but rather inventing new perceptions of existing languages.

Philip Glass

As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.

Masayoshi Son

When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.

Bill Buxton

I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.

Jonathan Safran Foer

You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.

Joshua Cohen

To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two hour movie, you're inventing a world, you're inventing characters. If they're interesting enough, they should be compelling enough to go for five more episodes. How incredibly frustrating would it be to just do one movie?

Melissa Rosenberg

I think there's a lot of people who right now are worried that people are going down frivolous paths, like inventing new social networks or new games, instead of inventing the cures for cancer or fundamental technologies that will change the world.

Charles Duhigg

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