Inventions - Inventors Quotes

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.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

For every person who thinks up a magnificent breakthrough idea, there are a hundred who are nothing more than mindless and unimportant implementers of the idea. The reason for the imbalance in numbers is that the implementers tend to kill the people with the great ideas in order to cut down on the workload. (“Dilbert”)