Quotes by Inventors

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil. David Sarnoff

Good Man Evil Our Brooding Paralyze Capacity Us Let Us

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources. Dean Kamen

Courage Innovation People Vision Resources Takes Frustrating Hard

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. Dean Kamen

Needs Car Bicycle City Like Fish

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones. Dean Kamen

You Big Fail Well Big Ones Going Might

I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again. Dean Kamen

Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people's lives. Dean Kamen

If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them. Erno Rubik

You Will Find Solve Determined Puzzles Around Curious Them

Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women. Gary Gygax

I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life. George Eastman

Life Music Community Nice Believe Think Our Our Community Absolutely Come Like Lace Essential Used Garment Necessary

People often think that losing your job is one of the worst things that can happen to someone. And, in some cases, that might be true. But for me, unemployment can be the time and the motivation to finally go after my goals. Homaro Cantu

I don't get upset if people think I'm crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that's the way I think about the world. They don't know any better. Jacque Fresco

To prepare for the future, we must be willing to test new concepts. This means we must acquire enough information to evaluate these concepts and not be like travelers in a foreign land who compare everything with their own hometown. Jacque Fresco

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place. James Naismith

Man Money Goals Power Way Pleasure Out Seeing Some More Sure Am Than Place Derive Pair Basketball

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it. Josiah Warren

Corruption Natural Money Value Cruelty Medium Finally Fraud Degrees Tendency Crushing Powerless Masses Render Built Imposition Sweep Natural Tendency Use Lessen Iniquity Away Consequently

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies. Josiah Warren

Confused Noisy Personal Controversies Wordy Decline

Something I learned along the way is that you really have to have courage in life. You can do amazing things on any level. It doesn't have to change the world; it can just impact the people around you - that's just as amazing. Joy Mangano

Your destination might not end up being exactly what you envisioned to start with, but if you stick it out and work through the challenges, what you end up with will be far better than you could have ever imagined. Joy Mangano

I think if you believe in something hard enough, it'll work. Joy Mangano

Work You Believe Think Enough Something Hard

The reason that fish form schools, birds form flocks, and bees form swarms is that they are smarter together than they would be apart. They don't take a vote; they don't take a poll: they form a system. They are all interactive and make a decision together in real time. Louis B. Rosenberg

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour. Mikhail Kalashnikov

Could Had Make Wood Grain Special Mill Designed Flour Mills

I made it to protect the motherland. Mikhail Kalashnikov

Made Protect Motherland

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

Work World Mind Thought Live Admired Shadows Only Gives Inventor Ideal Were Artists Which Creations Works Palpable

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of burning fuel. The struggle for existence being lessened, there should be development along ideal rather than material lines. Nikola Tesla

Struggle Water Will Power Every Rather Cheap Supply Long-Distance Development Ideal Along Household Material Lines Existence Than Being Burning Fuel Should Transmission Dispense Utilization Universal Necessity