Inventor quotes

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

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

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.