Quotes on Inventor

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.

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

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?

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

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

When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

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.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

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.