Inventions Quotes

There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions.

Ethel Merman
You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

Bill Gates

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Thomas A. Edison
- Work
- Accident
- Inventions
Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

Scott Adams
- Great
- Minds
- Inventions
We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.

Joseph Lancaster
James Lovelock is one of the great thinkers of our time. His ideas and inventions have opened up new insights into our planet and the way it works, and the story behind them will appeal to a very wide audience. I am pleased to recommend this book.

Chris Rapley
- Works
- Planet
- Insights
Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

Ernest Dimnet
- Forget
- Genius
- Reach
"I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century."

Beano Cook
- Hate
- Hair
- Inventions