Famous quotes by Inventors

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"Well, that's what it was bloody well designed to do, wasn't it?"

Frank Whittle, Inventor

"Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it"

Ray Kurzweil, Inventor

"The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"You affect the world by what you browse"

Tim Berners-Lee, 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 city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with"

Eli Whitney, Inventor

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success"

Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

"The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible"

Edwin Land, Inventor

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail"

Edwin Land, Inventor

"Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

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

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it"

Pierre Beaumarchais, Inventor

"I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep"

Pierre Beaumarchais, Inventor

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