#inventor

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— Will McDonough

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

— Charles Kettering

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Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor. ↗

— Steve Jobs

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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. ↗

— Charles Kettering

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He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch. ↗

— Dava Sobel

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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

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The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. ↗

— Harry Seidler

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My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential. ↗

— Scott McCloud

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The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

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