“I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.”
Ray Kurzweil
“An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.”
Charles F. Kettering
“An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.”
“Several of our organizations have some entrepreneur and inventor network groups. This would be a way to bring them together and have them have the ability to network with each other as well.”
Connie Loden
“People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.”
“If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.”
Johnny Carson
“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
Mark Twain
