Invention Quotes

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Book printing is the most important invention of the second millennium.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.”

“My goal was to develop a tool for musicians. I wasn't thinking about the pop music world at all.”

“Invention is a form of discovery.”