Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs, and believes it civilization.
Inventions - Inventors Quotes
There is not the slightest indication that energy will ever be obtainable from the atom.
Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be as well known as Henry Ford’s, for his helicopter will all but replace the horseless carriage as the new means of popular transportation. Instead of a car in every garage, […]
The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.
Getting caught is the mother of invention.
Necessity, the mother of invention.
This is the patent age of new inventions For killing bodies, and for saving souls, All propagated with the best intentions.
Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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.
