Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
Inventions - Inventors Quotes
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.
Eureka! (I have found it!)
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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)
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.
