A. . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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.
An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor.
Your nightmare existence in a trunk is over. . . At long last you will be recognized as the inventor of photography. This picture will prove it to all the world. (On his discovery of the first photograph, made by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. )
The Inventor Of Google Glass Says It Could Outsource Our Brains
I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].
Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had existed before, and both began to make their effects felt immediately (a situation that isn't invariable with new technology). Both devices were less the result of a single breakthrough than of an evolving set of technologies. Like the computer, the printing press had no one certain inventor; it was a technology whose time had come.
Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.
My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.
I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!
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.
An inventor is someone who makes another man rich.
Wherever you may find the inventor, you may give him wealth or you may take from him all that he has; and he will go on inventing. He can no more help inventing that he can help thinking or breathing.
Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.
I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.
People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in New York. At last the inventor managed to escape the crowd of people vying for his attention, and sat alone unnoticed in a corner. Edison kept looking at his watch with a resigned expression on his face. A friend edged near to him unnoticed and heard the inventor mutter to himself with a sigh, "If there were only a dog here!"
If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice.
I've been an amature inventor for a long time.
