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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. — Charles Kettering

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be
to me in all events
a terrible thing without books. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

The inventor knows HOW to borrow. — Harold Bloom

Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips. — Steven Spielberg

Death is the inventor of God. — Jose Saramago

I'm an inventor. I don't enjoy running the business. — Woody Norris

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The inventors of tools enhance civilization,
but the author of ideas enables them to invent. — Toba Beta

The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs no consideration. — Charles M. Schwab

You're the inventor," Klaus answered, buttoning his coat. "But you can't invent things like time, — Lemony Snicket

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. — John F. Kennedy

The Inventor Of Google Glass Says It Could Outsource Our Brains — Sebastian Thrun

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better. — Neil Jackson

Man is the inventor of stupidity. — Remy De Gourmont

The first devices to record and play back music were the phonograph and the gramophone. The gramophone's inventor: Alexander Graham Bell. — Marvin Ammori

Spanx are amazing. Thank you to the inventor of that. — Vanessa Lachey

Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor. — C. G. Jung

The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization. — Thomas A. Edison

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others. — H.W. Brands

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart. — Fernando Pessoa

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor. — William Shakespeare

The inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying. — Robert Green Ingersoll

As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think. — Alex Chiu

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling. — Bette Midler

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise. — Stephanie Kwolek

I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The French inventor told the acting troupe about Lord Maccon's death. — Gail Carriger

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special. — Kit Williams

When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to? — Bob Monkhouse

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. — Edwin Land

The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility. — Wyndham Lewis

Not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. — Maya Angelou

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly. — Daniel Webster

The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor. — Mahatma Gandhi

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man? — Erica Jong

If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch. — Kathy Lette

Momma convinced us that not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. The — Maya Angelou

When somebody builds me a time machine, I'm taking a trip back in time to find the inventor of the necktie and strangle him with one. — Marc Rainer

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. — David Hockney

Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye. — Joseph Wood Krutch

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor, — Eli Whitney

Coffee and chocolate - the inventor of mocha should be sainted. — Cherise Sinclair

There must be a way to get more of these in me faster, thought the inventor of pea soup as he sat eating peas. — Dana Gould

The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who? — Isaac Asimov

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller. — Scott Turow

As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius. — Thomas De Quincey

I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it? — Ryan Lilly

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented — Kevin Kelly

The case of the inventor who is duped by his own invention emphasizes our need for circumspection. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

The originals are not original, but that Emersonian irony yield to the Emersonian pragmatism that the inventor knows how to borrow. — Harold Bloom

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor. — Khalil Gibran

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating. — Woody Norris

Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy. — Thomas A. Edison

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised. — Judith Schaechter

I will be keeper of your secret," Talon told the silent grave of the forgotten inventor. "I will be the one who remembers why we forget. — Neal Shusterman

The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination - not vice versa. — Alessandro Volta

Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor. — Nathan Myhrvold

An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind. — Ayn Rand

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him. — Alexander Pope

It's the same old story," he would say, years later; "the inventor gets the experience, and the capitalist gets the invention. — Tim Wu

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer. — Julian Casablancas

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art. — Reginald Fessenden

The inventor creates so that life might be better. The writer creates so that we might be better. — Terry Barnes