Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Inventions - Inventors Quotes
Necessity is the mother of invention. Boredom is the father. Conception usually occurs at 3 A.M. as a result of insomnia.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.
Eureka! (I have found it!)
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
For God’s sake, go down to reception and get rid of a lunatic who’s down there. He says he’s got a machine for seeing by wireless! Watch him – he may have a razor on him. (Editor, responding to a visit from John Logie Baird, inventor of a prototype television apparatus, 1925)
Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent.
For every person who thinks up a magnificent breakthrough idea, there are a hundred who are nothing more than mindless and unimportant implementers of the idea. The reason for the imbalance in numbers is that the implementers tend to kill the people with the great ideas in order to cut down on the workload. (“Dilbert”)
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
