Quotes About Inventor

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Even if you don't like Poe—he invented the detective story. And science fiction. In essence, he invented a huge part of the twentieth century.

the inventor of general-purpose computer "time-sharing," a technique that let individual users interact with batch-processing behemoths in a way that looked very much like present-day personal computing.

The inventor of roller skates first demonstrated them by hurtling into a party while playing the violin and crashing into a huge mirror.

The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention.

I had not thought him so bold. But of course he was. Artist, creator, inventor, the greatest the world had known.

It took me a moment to understand. I had not thought him so bold. But of course, he was. Artist, creator, inventor, the greatest the world had known. Timidity creates nothing.

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

A Minneapolis company has come out with a credit card size shotgun that fits in your wallet. The inventor says he invented it to give people a sense of security. Oh yeah, what makes you feel more secure than sitting on shotgun? Now how does this work? What's the first thing a thief steals? Your wallet, oh, now he's got your gun too!

He reminded me a little of Walt Disney's version of a mad scientist.

Soy inventor-depresivo. –¿Es decir…? –Invento cosas, pero si no funcionan tiendo a deprimirme. Así que, si sacamos la media, puede decirse que soy inventor-depresivo. –Hay que inventar más para deprimirse menos, querido amigo… –Si pudiera, inventaría todo el tiempo.

Nature has evolved to be the inventor of complexity. Just as a jazz musician embroiders around a theme, thus improvising new melodic phrases according to his inspiration and the public's reactions, nature plays spontaneously with the physical laws that were fixed at the start of the universe. It uses them to create novelty9

Talvez, quem sabe, cumprisse o que sempre fora: sonhador de lembranças, inventor de verdades. Um sonâmbulo passeando entre o fogo. Um sonâmbulo como a terra em que nascera.

American inventor Robert Fulton was putting the finishing touches to his latest batch of torpedoes.