Top 248 Inventor Quotes & Sayings

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

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

I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

One must be an inventor to read well.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

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

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.

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

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

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

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?

An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.

The Inventor Of Google Glass Says It Could Outsource Our Brains

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

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

The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

The inventor and the research man are confused because they both examine results of physical or chemical operations. But they are exact opposites, mirror images of one another. The research man does something and does not care [exactly] what it is that happens, he measures whatever it is. The inventor wants something to happen, but does not care how it happens or what it is that happens if it is not what he wants.

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.

As a kid, I wanted to be an inventor and realizing that being an artist is like being an inventor because you create problems for yourself and you solve them and you create things that weren't there before. That's awfully simplified, but that's how it is.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.

I'm an inventor.

Some sad news from Australia... the inventor of the boomerang grenade died today.

I am an inventor of music.

I want to be an inventor in the real sense.

I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.

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

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

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

If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears.

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

Coffee and chocolate-the inventor of mocha should be sainted.

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

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.

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

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.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

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

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

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

Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things.

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

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

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

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

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

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in New York. At last the inventor managed to escape the crowd of people vying for his attention, and sat alone unnoticed in a corner. Edison kept looking at his watch with a resigned expression on his face. A friend edged near to him unnoticed and heard the inventor mutter to himself with a sigh, "If there were only a dog here!"

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

Death is the inventor of God.

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