Quotes by Inventors - Page 10

It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)
Edward de Bono
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Edward de Bono
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Charles Franklin Kettering
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Henry Ford
I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.[Epitaph from Gail Borden's gravestone.]
Gail Borden
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge experience and ability.
Henry Ford
That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter--and rather similar skills to operate. For it's the application of the power, not its amount, that matters. How long do you think Hitler's career as a dictator of Germany would have lasted, if wherever he went a voice was talking quietly in his ear? Or if a steady musical note, loud enough to drown all other sounds and to prevent sleep, filled his brain night and day? Nothing brutal, you appreciate. Yet, in the final analysis, just as irresistible as a tritium bomb.
Arthur C. Clarke
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste
Henry Ford
A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because looked at through the myth all evidence supports that myth.
Edward de Bono
I want to spy on all sorts of places, and the box is a portable hole that occurred to me under the circumstances, it being impossible to punch holes throughout the world.
Kōbō Abe
What I tell you three times is true. What I tell you three million times is civilization.
Mark Pesce
And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.... Don't settle
Steve Jobs
Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has but I notice he usually blunders forward.
Thomas A. Edison
I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect.
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
No doubt you are wondering what you will find, out there.' The Commandant said it for me.'Well, it would be useless for me to try and tell you. The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it...
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.
Dare to be naive.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The world itself, like the mask, began to seem difficult to believe in, and I was stricken with an unutterable sense of loneliness.
Kōbō Abe
Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right.
Henry Ford
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
Thomas A. Edison
I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I just try to think about the future and not be sad
Elon Musk
You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
Nikola Tesla
Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought.
Alastair Pilkington
The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner v
Steve Jobs
Nowadays what isn't worth saying is
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended
R. Buckminster Fuller
...all the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel -- the welcoming hand of the interested stranger.
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Hedy Lamarr
Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the universe, interpret this as "See--no weapons"? But no one could think of anything better.
Arthur C. Clarke
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
Vannevar Bush
The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organize gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.
Edward de Bono
Life lies between the crossroads of the Nature of the Mind and the Mind of Nature.
Joey Lawsin
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
Arthur C. Clarke
Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.
Vanna Bonta
Pardon me Mam,I'm new in town, could you please show me the way to your house?
Frank Calvin Mann
Sometimes life hits with a brick in the head, don't lose hope".-Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs
I've never believed that they're separate. Leonardo da Vinci was a great artist and a great scientist. Michelangelo knew a tremendous amount about how to cut stone at the quarry. The finest dozen computer scientists I know are all musicians. Some are better than others, but they all consider that an important part of their life. I don't believe that the best people in any of these fields see themselves as one branch of a forked tree. I just don't see that.People bring these things together a lot. Dr. Land at Polaroid said, "I want Polaroid to stand at the intersection of art and science," and I've never forgotten that. I think that that's possible, and I think a lot of people have tried.
Steve Jobs
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
Arthur C. Clarke
Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang
The pattern recognition theory of mind that I articulate in this book is based on a different fundamental unit: not the neuron itself, but rather an assembly of neurons, which I estimate to number around a hundred. The wiring and synaptic strengths within each unit are relatively stable and determined genetically—that is the organization within each pattern recognition module is determined by genetic design. Learning takes place in the creation of connections between these units, not within them, and probably in the synaptic strengths of the interunit connections.
Ray Kurzweil
If you want to succeed, get some enemies.
Thomas Edison
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
Buckminster Fuller
Men are most virile and attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.
Hedy Lamarr
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
Arthur C. Clarke
[T]hese leaders must not believe they are actually being watched, for their behavior in no way reflects the possible existence of a set of values or ethical laws that supersedes their own dominion.
Arthur C. Clarke
I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. ... I can digest philosophy better than food.
Alfred Nobel
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus
Alexander Graham Bell
Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.
Johann Philipp Reis
Now the soft-voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished.
Nikola Tesla
The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.
Edwin Howard Armstrong
The question "Who ought to be boss" is like asking "Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?" Obviously the man who can sing tenor.
Henry Ford
The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.
Vanna Bonta
You've baked a really lovely cake, but then you've used dog shit for frosting.
Steve Jobs