Everything that can be invented has been invented. (Director of U.S. Patent Office, 1899)
Inventions - Inventors Quotes
Be creative, invent a perversion.
The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.
I do not think that the wireless waves I have discovered will have any practical application.
Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
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.
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.
