"I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton"

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

"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"

"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"

"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"

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

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