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

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

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

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

"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"

"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"

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

"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"

"I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology"