Welcome to the world of innovation and creativity! Inventors throughout history have shaped the way we live, think, and interact with the world around us. From groundbreaking discoveries to revolutionary inventions, these visionaries have left an indelible mark on society. Whether they were driven by necessity, curiosity, or a desire to improve the human condition, inventors have consistently pushed the boundaries of what is possible.
In this collection of inventor quotes, we delve into the minds of these remarkable individuals, exploring their insights, motivations, and philosophies. From Thomas Edison’s relentless pursuit of progress to Nikola Tesla’s boundless imagination, each quote offers a glimpse into the passion and determination that drive innovation forward. Whether you’re an aspiring inventor, a seasoned entrepreneur, or simply someone who appreciates the power of human ingenuity, these quotes will inspire and motivate you to reach for new heights in your own endeavors. So, without further ado, let’s dive into the wisdom of the world’s greatest inventors.
I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn’t just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system. Aaron Patzer
On August 30, 1982, I get issued a copyright officially recognizing me as the inventor of e-mail. Shiva Ayyadurai
If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners. Johnny Carson
I decided I could develop a toy and get some revenue from that and then use that revenue to really become an inventor and work on some of the more challenging projects I had in mind. Lonnie Johnson
I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I’m always inventing something. Alan Alda
I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don’t. Aaron Patzer
In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions. Paul Watzlawick
I’d like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better. Neil Jackson
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was a fixer, a builder – an inventor – ever since I can remember. Tom Scholz
At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different? Richard Branson
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market. E. F. Schumacher
I don’t mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life. Tim Berners-Lee
As single-mom female inventor, there was no path for that, so really I don’t think people took me seriously for a really long time. Certainly the Miracle Mop being my first successful product, people started to pay attention, and I guess now they really pay attention. Joy Mangano
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. R. Buckminster Fuller
Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor’s words in speech or writing or design. Filippo Brunelleschi
The chicken wing and the cross-face were in the business but I was the first one to clasp my hands when I had both of them on. So I was sort-of the inventor of it. Bob Backlund
People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller. Scott Turow
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth. Oscar Wilde
I’m the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head – I don’t have to be in the lab working and sweating. Woody Norris
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world. J. M. Coetzee
I’m wary of the word ‘inventing,’ because in the British psyche the word ‘inventor’ is immediately linked with ‘mad’. For me, inventing is problem-solving. Thomas Heatherwick
I’m an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started. Ray Kurzweil
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. Ambrose Bierce
I spend my money on my props and my creations. I’m an inventor. Lady Gaga
I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. Ray Kurzweil
My father was a brilliant inventor and businessman. He taught me to appreciate the opportunities that America offers to innovators. Erik Prince
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy. David Grann
For a long time, I thought I’d be a physio if I wasn’t a sportsman. At one point, I wanted to be an inventor, and I’d come up with little schemes. Greg Rutherford
I’m an inventor. Lady Gaga
I had a hundred things I wanted to be, but when I was 13, I wanted to be an inventor. I wanted to improve the blow-dryer because it takes so long to blow-dry your hair, and it’s just a waste of time. I wanted to invent the therm-alarm, which would have you throw your sheets off in the night when you got too hot. Brit Morin
I want to be an inventor in the real sense. Simone Giertz
Spanx are amazing. Thank you to the inventor of that. Vanessa Lachey
Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor’s dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality. Amelia Earhart
I’ve always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven’t thought of before. I can’t tell you exactly what, though, because they might actually happen one day! Cara Delevingne
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. Charles Kettering
Inventors often don’t know how to pitch their ideas. So many people in Silicon Valley want to hear you say ‘disruptive,’ and tote a ‘platform.’ They repeat buzzwords over and over, and I think it intimidates a real inventor. Sir Mix-a-Lot
Contessa, a.k.a. Baboushka, was a leader in the Russian mafia. Hardnosed, ruthless… very much her own woman. She’s a martial artist, marksman, and good with guns and gadgets as any good pulp spy should be. She’s supported by her constant companion Gyorgy Gyorgyov, an old friend of her family who was, in fact, her KGB handler and inventor. Antony Johnston
American Inventor’, a show I came up with launched in 2006. It’s all of America’s greatest and wackiest inventions rolled into one with a judging panel including the legendary George Foreman. Peter Jones
Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special. Kit Williams
I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that’s not true: I went in in 1956, came out in 1959, was working at the University of Washington, and I came up with an idea, from reading a magazine article, for a new kind of a phonograph tone arm. Woody Norris
I’m not a designer, I’m an inventor. Kenneth Jay Lane
My dad was an inventor, and I think I’ve always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential. Scott McCloud
Man is the inventor of stupidity. Remy de Gourmont
I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor. Francis Ford Coppola
I’m crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she’s hilarious. Rob Delaney
I’ve been really lucky as an inventor. I’m the happiest guy you’re ever going to meet. And my dad died before he realized anybody in the family would maybe, hopefully, make something out of themselves. Woody Norris
As the inventor of MyPillow, I have been a proponent of American-made products for decades. Mike Lindell
Years ago, Barry Diller asked me to be a judge on a pilot for an inventor show on USA, and when it was over, the producer, Ken Mok, took me out to dinner and really got me talking. It was a long dinner. Afterward, he said, ‘One day, I’m going to write your movie’. Joy Mangano
I’m not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians. Michael Nyman
When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
In our case, I, a working engineer, inventor and scientist, am bringing new innovation to campaigning to enable a grass-roots movement. Shiva Ayyadurai
I named my software ‘EMAIL,’ (a term never used before in the English language), and I even received the first U.S. Copyright for that software, officially recognizing me as The Inventor of Email, at a time when Copyright was the only way to recognize software inventions, since the U.S. Supreme Court was not recognizing software patents. Shiva Ayyadurai
Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work. Nikola Tesla
A lot of mythology surrounds British inventor Geoffrey Pyke. He supposedly made people come to his bedside to see his designs because getting up and getting dressed took too long. Jamie Hyneman
When I was 22, I realised I wanted to be an inventor. Nick Woodman
As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think. Alex Chiu
I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up. Aaron Patzer
My father, a former Air India official, but essentially an inventor at heart – a man who loved to sometimes break machines just so that he could have the joy of re-engineering them – was a twinkly-eyed, ever-optimistic man of science. Barkha Dutt
That’s one of the advantages of being an inventor and tinkerer – I have everything I need to make what I need. Lonnie Johnson
I’ve been an amature inventor for a long time. Billy Sheehan
I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn’t. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff. Jane Smiley
As an inventor, it’s a rite of passage to have an engine. I’d like to have my own engine someday. Lonnie Johnson
I am an inventor of music. Igor Stravinsky
In the two million years during which we climbed from stone-tool-wielding Homo erectus with sloping brows to high-foreheaded Homo urbanis – man, the inventor of the city – we underwent 60 glaciations, 60 ice ages. Howard Bloom
I guess that’s just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise. Stephanie Kwolek
An inventor’s path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches. James Dyson
Don’t let the secret recipe die with the inventor. Nathan Myhrvold
If you don’t know Tom Lehrer, you should – in addition to being a classical pianist, mathematician, songwriter, satirist, researcher at Los Alamos and, he claims, inventor of the Jell-O shot, he is just delightfully funny and graceful. Rachel Sklar
You can’t name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. David Hockney
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. Charles Kettering
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. Nikola Tesla
You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one. Cameron Russell
As far as animatronics, I started out in college working for Tom Holman. He was the inventor of the THX sound system. Through him, I got an internship at Lucasfilm. Grant Imahara
We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world. Salman Rushdie
I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor. Josie Maran
I thought I wanted to be an inventor but then discovered you couldn’t study inventing! Thomas Heatherwick
I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor. The Weeknd
Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor. Steve Jobs
I’m an inventor. I don’t enjoy running the business. Woody Norris
I contend that if it wasn’t for Jimi, the gadgets we use for electric guitars now wouldn’t have happened. He was an inventor, in a sense – as well as being great artist. Jose Feliciano
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. Alfred Hitchcock
It’s as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn’t a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There’s been lots more like him, and it’s a shame they don’t get Nobel Prizes. Freeman Dyson
My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still use on airstrips. They had faith in my ambition, and I think that made all the difference. Chuck Close
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology. Oswald Spengler
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. Julian Casablancas
I’m not an inventor. I just want to make things better. Daniel Ek
I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect. Ray Kurzweil
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
You can’t be an inventor trying to figure a better way of changing the spare tire. That’s boring. We need someone who figures out how to hit a button and turn the entire car upside down. Ken Hakuta
I don’t mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he’s done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do mind that a lot of unworthy people rode his coattails to minizillionaire status, e.g. the inventor of Hungarian notation, probably the dumbest widely-promulgated idea in the history of the field. Jon Evans
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton. David Antin
I spent three years there and encountered great teachers who gave me enough stimulation to last me for the rest of my life – Josef Albers, painter; Buckminster Fuller, inventor; Max Dehn, the mathematician, and many others. Through them, I came to understand the total commitment required if one must be an artist. Ruth Asawa
The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone’s inventor: Alexander Graham Bell. Marvin Ammori
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously. Charles Kettering
Being an independent inventor is tough. You develop a product, patent it, then you’re looking for someone who will see the benefit from this technology. You assume all the investment and all the risk. It can be a challenge. Lonnie Johnson
