Quotes by Inventors

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer. Charles Kettering

Man Opportunities Few Imagination Thousand Composer Ten Only Limited His

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success. David Sarnoff

Success Failure Will Between Persevere Often Difference

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile. Dean Kamen

Work Hard Work Time You Will Sacrifice Those Worthwhile Fail Most Also Make Occasional Occasionally Succeed Successes Hard

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible. Edwin Land

Impossible Important Unless Project Undertake Nearly

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability. Frank Whittle

War Good Fight Nation Ability Modern Modern War Technological

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff. Gary Gygax

Game Try Somebody Fire Spells Magic Threw Stuff Retiring Said Real Dungeons Gold Screamed Copy Dragons

Although many of us consider ourselves forward-thinkers, we still cling tenaciously to the old values of the monetary system. We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages. Jacque Fresco

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals. James Naismith

Strong Mind Be Strong Lofty Clean Ideals Body

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge. Nikola Tesla

Nature Knowledge Science Light Added Our Vastly True Instruments True Nature Revealed Provided Precision Us Electrical Thereby Appliances

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. R. Buckminster Fuller

You Sometimes Master Blind Deaf Servant

You can never learn less, you can only learn more. R. Buckminster Fuller

You More Only Never Learn Less

War is the ultimate tool of politics. R. Buckminster Fuller

Politics War Tool Ultimate

God is a verb, not a noun. R. Buckminster Fuller

God Verb Noun

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. R. Buckminster Fuller

Leadership Needs Universe Look How Itself Done After Designs

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold. Ray Kurzweil

Artificial Intelligence Intelligence Will Our Say Further Machine Out Follow Civilization Reach Around Artificial Human Biological Levels

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. Thomas A. Edison

Weapons Invented Fact Never Proud Am

It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried. Woody Norris

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids. Alexander Graham Bell

Army Protection Neither Aerial Nor Very Any Against Little Navy

I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits. Charles Goodyear

Complain Others Am Fruits Planted Gathered

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again. Charles Kettering

You Matter Try Fail Does Again

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow. Charles Kettering

Think Say America Anyhow Even

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. Charles Kettering

Education Seriously Too Inventor Take Simply Fellow His Who