For God’s sake, go down to reception and get rid of a lunatic who’s down there. He says he’s got a machine for seeing by wireless! Watch him – he may have a razor on him. (Editor, responding to a visit from John Logie Baird, inventor of a prototype television apparatus, 1925)
Inventions - Inventors Quotes
Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent.
A tool is but an extension of a man’s hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well being of man-kind.
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
I thank the host this evening for his kind remarks but I must insist upon one minor correction. God invented the talking machine. I only invented the first one that can be shut off. (at a dinner, the toastmaster mentioned his many inventions, dwelling at length on the talking machine.)
Inventor, n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers, and springs, and believes it civilization.
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.
