Invention Quotes

“I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.”

“This is a revolution, not just an improvement.”

“To be a great composer, you must be a great inventor.”

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

“I have created a monster. It will make static a thing of the past.”

“You have to be a little bit of a mad scientist to invent something new.”

“It's a replacement for the heart. It's a biventricular replacement, what's called a total artificial heart.”

“Among the many mechanical contrivances which I have had the good fortune to bring to a successful issue, there is none which has given me so much pleasure as my steam-hammer.”

“The steam-hammer is a child of my own.”

“I have thought of a method of fixing the image of the spectrum, with the colors. It is the photographic image of the mirror itself.”

“I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine.”

“Now this I'm particularly proud of - behind the headlights, stinger missiles!”

“I didn't invent the magnetic stripe. I invented the way to use it.”

“I understood that the person who has the patent has the legal right to tell everybody else to stop doing what they're doing.”

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

“Invention is the prime function of the active and selective consciousness.”

“It occurred to me that if I fed the amplified output back to the input, in opposition, I would have exactly what I wanted.”

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

“Invention is a form of discovery.”

“Have I done the world good, or have I added a menace?”