Want is the mistress of invention.
Inventions - Inventors Quotes
If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.
I’ve met many of these inventors who invent something that cannot work, that is theoretically impossible. But they spent three years developing it, running a motor without electricity, with magnets. You explain to them it won’t work. It violates the second law of thermodynamics. And they say, “Don’t give me your goddamn Washington laws.”
An amazing invention – but who would ever want to use one? (made a call from Washington to Pennsylvania with Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, patented on 7 March 1876)
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time or dreaming.
Matrimony – the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Everything that can be invented has been invented. (Director of U.S. Patent Office, 1899)
Be creative, invent a perversion.
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.
