quotes about Inventor
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Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.
-- Alexander Pope -
I've been an amature inventor for a long time.
-- Billy Sheehan -
When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?
-- Bob MonkhouseSource : "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.
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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
-- Charles Kettering -
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I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
-- Daniel Ek -
An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.
-- David Sarnoff -
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market
-- E. F. Schumacher -
An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,
-- Eli Whitney -
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.
-- Ernst MachSource : Ernst Mach (2012). “Knowledge and Error: Sketches on the Psychology of Enquiry”, p.136, Springer Science & Business Media
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The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
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If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.
-- George Gobel -
Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
-- Herbert J. MullerSource : Uses of the Past ch. 8 (1957)
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The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?
-- Isaac Asimov -
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
-- John F. Kennedy -
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People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
-- John Thomas Sladek -
I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.
-- Josie Maran -
If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.
-- Kathy LetteSource : Kathy Lette (2012). “Altar Ego”, p.309, Random House
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Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
-- Nathan Myhrvold -
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I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.
-- Ray Kurzweil -
People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
-- Scott Turow -
I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.
-- Tom Scholz