Quotes About Invention

When I did inventions, I always thought only of the invention itself, but the kids would ask for marketing materials.

Pretty much all of my inventions come about the same way. I have an everyday problem or something that I'm too lazy to do, so I make a machine that does it for me.

I'm an inventor. I don't enjoy running the business.

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

I am an inventor of music.

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.

The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell.

I thought I wanted to be an inventor but then discovered you couldn't study inventing!

I contend that if it wasn't for Jimi, the gadgets we use for electric guitars now wouldn't have happened. He was an inventor, in a sense - as well as being great artist.

When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.

I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creating it, rather than being in it.

The IP is a completely different side of the IT, and that is what we want Vijayawada for.

At the end of the day, if you want to create more IP and more invention, you need to connect between research and entrepreneurs. People who are going to take a risk.

There are a lot of positives things coming out of Israel, whether it's the stent that was manufactured by an Israeli company for heart disease, or the chip in your phone or the drop irrigation system that has helped farmers all over the world to grow crops... the list goes on and on.

People think that the Italians invented neorealism, but actually, Humphrey Jennings did. He was revolutionary in using non-professional actors in his films, and he got extraordinary performances out of them.

I did not plan... the Cube as a competitive item.

When I was a kid, I never wanted to be James Bond. I wanted to be Q, because he was the guy who made all the gadgets. I guess you could say that engineering came naturally.

When James Bond presses the watch and the car explodes, the writer doesn't go into the science of it. One should leave it to the leap of faith. I have tried to explain as much as possible, and what I can't, I have left it to people's imagination.

I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food.

I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn't. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.

I've invented a new type of engine that converts heat directly into electricity with no moving mechanical parts. It's called the Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter, the JTEC.

I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.

It would be an unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.