#invent

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

— Charles Kettering

#asks #ever #inventor #other #people

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#career #comics #form #i #reinvent

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#architecture #capital #car #developed #extended

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#believe #destruction #dynamite #even #far

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'. ↗

— Howard Barker

#being #decide #i #invent #never

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#dated #fixed #inventions #many #offices

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire. ↗

— Jonathan Gilbert

#result #right #right thing #sometimes #the right thing

I've been an amature inventor for a long time. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

#i #inventor #long #long time #time

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#called #human #human beings #inalienable #inalienable right

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. ↗

— Victor Borge

#caught #cure #died #disease #father