Quotes by Inventors - Page 6

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
Vannevar Bush
..the happy hum of humanity.
Arthur C. Clarke
If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you'll be right.
Steve Jobs
Just as trees bear their fruit before winter, just as bamboo grass produces its seeds just before it withers, sex is simply a struggle with death on the human level.
Kōbō Abe
That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. [BusinessWeek, May 25 1998]
Steve Jobs
Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without. Owing to the similarity of our construction and the sameness of our environment, we respond in like manner to similar stimuli, and from the concordance of our reactions, understanding is born. In the course of ages, mechanisms of infinite complexity are developed, but what we call 'soul' or 'spirit,' is nothing more than the sum of the functionings of the body. When this functioning ceases, the 'soul' or the 'spirit' ceases likewise.I expressed these ideas long before the behaviorists, led by Pavlov in Russia and by Watson in the United States, proclaimed their new psychology. This apparently mechanistic conception is not antagonistic to an ethical conception of life.
Nikola Tesla
Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.
Steve Jobs
Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.
Henry Ford
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways it will NOT work.
Thomas Edison
We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
Henry Ford
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.
Henry Ford
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs
Reality is reality when it exists inside and outside the mind.
Joey Lawsin
Science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller
This had not endeared him to exobiologists such as Dr Perera, who took exactly the opposite view. To them, the only purpose of the Universe was the production of intelligence, and they were apt to talk sneeringly about purely astronomical phenomena, 'Mere dead matter' was one of their favourite phrases.
Arthur C. Clarke
Think sideways!
Edward de Bono
...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.
Arthur C. Clarke
Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.
Henry Ford
Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.
Pierre Beaumarchais
It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
Charles Lindbergh
The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those persons who shall have rendered humanity the best services during the past year. ... One-fifth to the person having made the most important discovery or invention in the science of physics, one-fifth to the person who has made the most eminent discovery or improvement in chemistry, one-fifth to the one having made the most important discovery with regard to physiology or medicine, one-fifth to the person who has produced the most distinguished idealistic work of literature, and one-fifth to the person who has worked the most or best for advancing the fraternization of all nations and for abolishing or diminishing the standing armies as well as for the forming or propagation of committees of peace.
Alfred Nobel
Of what use can our labour be, when the labours we record are in themselves entirely useless?
Henry Dircks
We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better." -Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality.
Arthur C. Clarke
Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
Charles F. Kettering
Now comes the reign of iron — and cased sloops are to take the place of wooden ships.
John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
The dial of the clock wears out unevenly; Most worn Is the area round eight. As it is stared at with abrasive glancesunfailingly twice a day, It is weathered away. On the other side The area at two Is only half as worn, For closed eyes at nightPass without stopping. If there is one who possesses a flat watch evenly worn, It is he who, failing at the start, is running one lap behind. Thus the world is always A lap fast--The world he thinks he sees Has not yet begun. Illusory time, When the hands stand vertically on the dial; Without the bell announcing the raising of the curtain, The play has come to an end.
Kōbō Abe
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.
Lin Yutang
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window
Steve Wozniak
There is something lamentable, degrading, and almost insane in pursuing the visionary schemes of past ages with dogged determination, in paths of learning which have been investigated by superior minds, and with which such adventurous persons are totally unacquainted. The history of Perpetual Motion is a history of the fool-hardiness of either half-learned, or totally ignorant persons.
Henry Dircks
I haven't failed,I have just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
Lin Yutang
Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
Man came first through evolution. God came second through man's imagination.
Joey Lawsin
I never did anything worth doing by accident nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
Thomas Alva Edison
The Only Way to Do Great Work is To Love What You Do
Steve Jobs
It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to , We hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.
Steve Jobs
To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
Henry Ford
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Steve Jobs
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.
Steve Jobs
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.
Alexander Graham Bell
Life is not a circle. It is a straight line that has ups and downs.
Joey Lawsin
Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.
Arthur C. Clarke
But wherever there is man, there must be some sort of route
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.
The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar there is to new ideas.
Edward deBono
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford
Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.
Kōbō Abe
The future is forever a projection of the present.
Kōbō Abe
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
Thomas A. Edison
Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.
Jacque Fresco
The universe evolved from something and nothing, and has most of these elemental dualpair until now.
Joey Lawsin
Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right.
Henry Ford
What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths, and every one of them stock’d with so many Herbs, Trees and Animals, and adorn’d with so many Seas and Mountains! And how must our wonder and admiration be encreased when we consider the prodigious distance and multitude of the Stars?
Christiaan Huygens
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar instead of how little he can give for a dollar is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford