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.
Inventions - Inventors Quotes
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.
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.