Quotes About Inventors

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.

Technology/science," "pure/applied," "internal/external," and "technical/ social" are some of the dichotomies that were foreign to the integrating inventors, engineers, and managers of the system- and network-building era. To

Many inventors fail because they do not distinguish between planning and experimenting. The

Inventors often don't know how to pitch their ideas. So many people in Silicon Valley want to hear you say 'disruptive,' and tote a 'platform.' They repeat buzzwords over and over, and I think it intimidates a real inventor.

It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing - in the case of patents, many that own them aren't in a good position to take the next step.

Patents and other property laws, protecting ownership rights of inventors, reward innovation in the modern West, while the lack of such protection discourages it in modern China.

The strong individualism of U.S. society allows successful inventors to keep earnings for themselves, whereas strong family ties in New Guinea ensure that someone who begins to earn money will be joined by a dozen relatives expecting to move in and be fed and supported.

2) Patents and other property laws, protecting ownership rights of inventors, reward innovation in the modern West, while the lack of such protection discourages it in modern China.

Inventors often have to persist at their tinkering for a long time in the absence of public demand, because early models perform too poorly to be useful.

Larger populations mean more inventors and more competing societies.

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.

The Greeks were the real inventors of what we call math, because-again-they were the first people to treat numbers and their relations as abstractions rather than as properties of collections of real things.

For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

The most striking results are for the job category of inventors. If you are looking for inventors, IQ is by far the most significant of all the measurable variables we have. Furthermore, at higher levels of measured IQ the probability of becoming an inventor rises all the more.

The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.

They both changed the way we hear the sound of the piano, both of them inventors of sonority: Chopin took bel canto singing lines and reproduced them on the keyboard above richly upholstered counterpoint; Debussy somehow preserved vibrations in the air, blending their ephemeral magic into music that reaches far back into deep memory.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or never inventors.

Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

Vanderbilt, Hill, the Wright brothers—these are the American pioneers. They

published in 1974 as "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection,"16 gave the first architectural description of how the Internet would function as a network of networks, with TCP/IP as the glue holding it all together. Indeed, "the paper" is why Kahn and Cerf are so often hailed today as the inventors of the Internet, to the extent that any two people can be singled out for that honor: this was pretty much where the Internet began.

My experience is that inventors come in all sizes, all nationalities, all ages. The only thing I'm sure of is that inventors are always stubborn.

I come from a whole goddam family of inventors, said Will. We had ideas for breakfast. We had ideas instead of breakfast. We had so many ideas we forgot to make the money for groceries.