I’ve met many of these inventors who invent something that cannot work, that is theoretically impossible. But they spent three years developing it, running a motor without electricity, with magnets. You explain to them it won’t work. It violates the second law of thermodynamics. And they say, “Don’t give me your goddamn Washington laws.”
Inventions - Inventors Quotes
An amazing invention – but who would ever want to use one? (made a call from Washington to Pennsylvania with Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, patented on 7 March 1876)
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.
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.
