I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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.
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to his own invention is a very different matter. It is no more a monopoly for him to possess that, than to possess his own homestead .
Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.
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