(26 quotes found)
“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.”
“If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.”
Johnny Carson
“People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.”
“The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly”
Daniel Webster
“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
Mark Twain
“We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we invented, which was human liberty.”
“Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.”
Voltaire
“I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.”
“Focus should be to encourage and develop creativity in all children without the ultimate goal begin to make all children inventors, but rather to develop a future generation of critical thinkers.”
Faraq Mousa
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