Zitat des Tages über Erfinder / Inventor:
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.
I've been an amature inventor for a long time.
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
I am an inventor of music.
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.
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.
I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.
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.
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.
People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Man is the inventor of stupidity.
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.
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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.
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.
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?
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.
I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
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.
Spanx are amazing. Thank you to the inventor of that.
My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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.
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.
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.
I'm crazy about Shakespeare, who was a notorious word inventor. And my wife is an English teacher, and she's hilarious.