Famous quotes by Inventors

"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine"

Nikola Tesla, Inventor

"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

"You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"I'm a human entropy producer"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do!"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought!"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love his work, love his job"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

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