There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to institute a new order of things.
Inventions - Inventors Quotes
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? (Associate of radio pioneer David Sarnoff, 1920s)
The “silly” question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – gunpowder and romantic love.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void, but out of chaos.
With latest connections, works, the inter-transportation of the world, Steam-power, the great express lines, gas, petroleum, These triumphs of our time, the Atlantic’s delicate cable, The Pacific railroad, the Suez canal, the Mont Cenis and Gothard and Hoosac tunnels, the Brooklyn bridge, This earth all spann’d with iron rails, with lines of steamships threading in […]
Nikola Tesla invented the 20th and 21st Century… Tesla was the inventor of the alternating poly-phase current generators that light up every town in the world today. He was the original inventor of the radio, and placed his ideas in print and demonstrated them before the public five years before Marconi. By the turn of […]
The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil.
If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this.
Very interesting, Whittle, my boy, but it will never work. (Response of Cambridge aeronautical engineering professor, shown Frank Whittle’s plan for a jet engine)
