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

"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"

"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"

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

"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"

"Man is the inventor of stupidity"

"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"