Inventor Quotes
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I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went in in 1956, came out in 1959, was working at the University of Washington, and I came up with an idea, from reading a magazine article, for a new kind of a phonograph tone arm.
Elwood G. Norris
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I've been really lucky as an inventor. I'm the happiest guy you're ever going to meet. And my dad died before he realized anybody in the family would maybe, hopefully, make something out of themselves.
Elwood G. Norris
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The Inventor Of Google Glass Says It Could Outsource Our Brains
Sebastian Thrun
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Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius: his stock making machine was the daddy of all the industrial profiling machinery, like the 1870s universal milling machine, that was the especial American contribution to machining technology. By that time, the British conceded that machinery innovation had shifted to America.
Charles R. Morris
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People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
Scott Turow
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I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.
Will McDonough
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Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.
Ernst Mach
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I love my life. I love being an inventor.
Jeff Bezos
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Coffee and chocolate-the inventor of mocha should be sainted.
Cherise Sinclair
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I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.
Elwood G. Norris
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Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves. - University of Kansas Jayhawks head coach Phog Allen, reposting the contention of his Kansas predecessor and inventor of basketball James Naismith, pictured, that basketball could not be coached When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.
Darryl Dawkins
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I'm an inventor. I don't enjoy running the business.
Elwood G. Norris
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No one is an inventor in the fashion business. Designers recreate fashion.
Tommy Hilfiger
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I've always liked the idea of inventing stuff. My father told me, because I was naïve, I would think things could work and therefore do them, because I would have no doubt even though there was no solid foundation for this confidence. I don't think I would be a real inventor. But when I set out to do animation, which was my first step into film-making, I realised I could achieve this idea. I could take some elements, create a sort of clumsy invention, and make them work for the camera.
Michel Gondry