Inventor Quotes

Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.

I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists.

I have continued to work at different things, and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something. I did it because I happened to be where I was.

The negative side is that sometimes it is beyond control.

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.

Satisfying every vision that fans have is probably impossible.

Ontario wood prices are among the highest in the world.

It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.

I didn't feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go.

CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

We completely reject the theory of evolution.

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

Now comes the reign of iron.

Mode of providing steam power to locomotives.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.