"Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special"

"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing"

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

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

"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots"

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

"Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor"

"Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market"

"A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist"

"I am an inventor of music"

"That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world"