678 quotes by inventors for you to enjoy

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

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. Orville Wright

Fly Will Machine Flying Paris New York New York Ever

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease. R. Buckminster Fuller

Home Great Me Circle Rich Ease Architects Give Give Me Knees Sing Clients Aesthetic Dome Just Where Strains Bring Stresses

Man knows so much and does so little. R. Buckminster Fuller

Man Intelligence Knows Does Little Much

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. R. Buckminster Fuller

Enough Emergence Emergency Badly Ideas Undergone Accepted Process Needed

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper. R. Buckminster Fuller

God Me Proper Seems Verb Noun

Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills. Ray Kurzweil

Memories Personality Defines Information Skills Your

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete. Rudolf Diesel

Life Work Car Will Consider Complete Come Automobile Then Engine

To have a great idea, have a lot of them. Thomas A. Edison

Great Imagination Great Idea Idea Lot Them

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. Thomas A. Edison

Work Man Several Thousand Results Know Gotten Lot Why Things

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. Thomas A. Edison

Death War Day Man Science Will Spring Fighter Machine One Day Dare Abandon Torture Fearful Absolutely Force Terrifying Brain Forever Inflict Order Appalled Who Even

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward. Thomas A. Edison

President Say Wilson He Perhaps Blunders Notice Forward They Say

I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures. Tim Berners-Lee

Hope Will Cross Net Cultures Use Connect Barriers

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available. Tim Berners-Lee

You Power Difficult Data Sort Going Different Available Many Imagine

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on. Tim Berners-Lee

Property Legal Face Important Ownership Society Complex Open Open Source Issue Issues Private Source Cultural Private Ownership Intellectual Intellectual Property Whole Here