I have travelled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year. (Editor of business books, 1957)
Inventions - Inventors Quotes
Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. (Regarding Robert Goddard’s revolutionary work, 1921)
Young people tend to look down on my generation. They say that we didn’t have satellite TV, we didn’t have personal computers, we didn’t have the internet. They’re right. We “invented” them.
To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones.
One thing the inventors can’t seem to get the bugs out of is fresh paint.
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an extensive independent contemplation of things.
To make an apple pie from scratch, we must first invent the universe.
I must confess that my imagination, in spite even of spurring, refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
To be fruitful in invention, it is indispensable to have a habit of observation and reflection.
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.
