Inventor Quotes

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.

If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'

When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?

Inventors don't have time for married life.

I've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

I am an inventor of music.

No one is an inventor in the fashion business. Designers recreate fashion.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.

Death is the inventor of God.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

An inventor creates something that works. An entrepreneur creates something that others will buy.

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

I've been an amature inventor for a long time.

The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?