Inventors Quotes

“So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their real talents go undeveloped, while they chase after fame. I am grateful for the people with obscure unremarked talents because they make our lives easier---inventors, organizers, planners, peacemakers, communicators, activists, scientists, and so forth. However, there is one gift that trumps all other talents—being an excellent parent. If you can successfully raise a child in this day in age to have integrity then you have left a legacy that future generations will benefit from.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.”
― Dava Sobel, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

“It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.”
― Mark Twain

“The visionary is destined to walk in solitude.
If the vision is truly original;
If the vision is truly unprecedented;
Then by its very nature, only the visionary is privy to its wonders.
It is the burden of a single soul.
Alone.
For even the visionary must peel back, chisel and ax away at the status quo to eventually reveal for all humanity what is yet unseen and unheard of.
The visionary is the sculptor releasing the vision from the block of stone that is convention.”
― A.E. Samaan

“Another dream had been shattered.”
― Henry S. Gillette, Leonardo da Vinci,: Pathfinder of science

“Inventors make something out of anything, but God makes something out of nothing. Elohim needs no raw materials.”
― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“Hugo Gernsback invented pulp magazines and the grandfather paradox. Not bad for a charlatan.”
― James Gleick, Time Travel: A History

“Respect for inventors is the key for success of a patent system”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Inventors are honorable not because they make a difference, but because they want to make a difference against all odds”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“True inventors do not sit on their inventions”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“The moment a gentleman perfects an invention and petitions the government for aid, he ceases to be an innocent citizen and becomes a culprit, a man to be shirked, browbeaten, and sneered at. I have never heard of any mechanician, inventor, or natural scientist who failed to find the government all but inaccessible, and whom the government did not discourage and treat badly.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Enchantress of Numbers

“People told Henry Ford he couldn't do it. People told Thomas Edison he couldn't do it. People told Andrew Carnegie he couldn't do it. People told Jesus Christ he couldn't do it.
They all have in common they were told they couldn't do it and they all have something else in common, they all did it!”
― Jose R. Coronado, The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey

“Our human history is the history of ideas. Our human future is the future of ideas. Human desire. Human imagination. Human ingenuity. Creating and copying. Tool-makers and dream-chasers.”
― Max McKeown, Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

“Innovators make the previously impossible possible.”
― Max McKeown, The Innovator’s Book: Rules for Rebels, Mavericks and Innovators

“New ideas are like babies, beautiful, ugly and not finished yet.”
― Max McKeown, The Innovator’s Book: Rules for Rebels, Mavericks and Innovators

“Connect with your creative side.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“To achieve patent commercialization success, every inventor must think like a business man”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“Inventors do not invent for financial gain, they invent simply because they love to invent”
― Kalyan C. Kankanala, Fun IP, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property

“It takes a community to raise a new idea - Pioneers, trendsetters, hipsters, hackers, hustlers, trailblazers, inventors, heretics, creators, problem-solvers, optimists, obsessives, firestarters, scientists, risktakers, disrupters, gamechangers, explorers, and garage heroes... People like you.”
― Max McKeown, E-Customer

“Before invention there is insight.”
― Max McKeown, The Innovator’s Book: Rules for Rebels, Mavericks and Innovators

“The main interest of Fermat, who shares the credit for inventing calculus with Newton and analytic geometry with Descartes, was number theory —“the higher arithmetic.”
― Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

“[Dream that lead to real-life invention]

A man was in a jungle surrounded by saages. They were coming menacingly close to him, their spears rising, then descending. Each spear had a hole in the tip. When he awoke he saw this dream as the answer to a problem that had him stymied: how to design a sewing machine. He could make the needle rise and descend, but not sew - until his dream told him to put the hole at the tip. The man was Elias Howe, who invented the first practical sewing machine.”
― José Silva, The Silva Mind Control Method

“Art shouldn't be necessarily done for an audience. Sometimes creating for yourself can be equally rewarding.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Creativity helps us fulfil our purposes in this life.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Draw, dance, invent, plan, just do anything to stimulate your imagination.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Seek people with whom you can either create or share your creation.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Being creative, in any form, gives magical powers to an individual. One transforms from being just a person to being a creator.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“There is a parallel relationship between being creative and being intelligent.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Creativity enhances all senses. But the best part is that one gets to tap into their sixth sense as well.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Creativity doesn't require competition. Do it for you or for a good cause.”
― Mitta Xinindlu