Inventor Quotes: Inspiring Words from Visionary Minds

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

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

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

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

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"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"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

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

Julian Casablancas, Musician

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

E. F. Schumacher, Economist

"I am an inventor of music"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

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

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

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

Johnny Carson, Comedian

"Man is the inventor of stupidity"

Remy de Gourmont, Novelist

"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"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"I've been an amature inventor for a long time"

Billy Sheehan, Musician

"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"

Oswald Spengler, Philosopher

"People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller"

Scott Turow, Novelist

"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"

Ray Kurzweil, Inventor

"I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author"

Ray Kurzweil, Inventor

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

Kit Williams, Author

"As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think"

Alex Chiu, Businessman

"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"

Nikola Tesla, Inventor

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

Tom Scholz, Musician

"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"

David Antin, Poet

"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"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist