#inventor

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#arm #asthmatic #carrying #equalled #his

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

— David Hockney

#camera #chemical #invention #inventor #name

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. ↗

— Mark Twain

#greatest #inventors #name

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#dinners #eating #frozen #inventor #radio

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#designer #economist #emerging #evolutionary #inventor

I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended. ↗

— Will McDonough

#intended #inventors #should #television #think

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#every #how #improvement #inventory #lives

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. ↗

— Ross Perot

#led #managed #must #people

And it has to do with having no inventory or stockpiles on the shelf, but items arrive as you need to build your product. What that means is that it's much more difficult to actually find stockpiles of already built weapons. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

#already #arrive #build #built #difficult

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#failures #his #inventor #once #practice