Inventor Quotes - Page 6

• When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a judge at a high court, of the deep sea diver of the cleaner of sewers, of the organiser of a new industry and a jockey, of the inspector of taxes and the inventor of a life-saving drug, of the jet-pilot or the professor of mathematics, the appeal to 'social justice' does not give us the slightest help in deciding.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Sea, Coal Miners, Justice

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 9 : 'Social' or Distributive Justice, 1973.

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• Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Work, Life Changing

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

  Judith Schaechter

  Demand, Artistic, Invention

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• The Inventor Of Google Glass Says It Could Outsource Our Brains

  Sebastian Thrun

  Glasses, Google, Brain

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• I think that the inventors can do anything they want, and nobody can say anything otherwise.

  Jason Newsted

  Thinking, Say Anything, Want

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• You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Team, Guy, Needs

  "The Social Network". Biography, Drama, www.imdb.com. October 01, 2010.

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• Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met the inventor of the snowboard, Steve Sanders, Mr. Burton's brother.

  Frederick Lenz

  Brother, Islands, Feet

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• As is the inventor of murder, and the father of art, Cain must have been a man of first-rate genius.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Art, Father, Philosophy

  Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1851). “De Quincey's Writings: Miscellaneous essays. 1851”, p.24

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• You young people yourselves are capable of performing anything. Our inventors can invent in a high level. Our innovators can innovate in a high level, only if they keep self confidence and believe that we can.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Believe, Self Confidence, People

  Ruhollah Khomeini's address to an audience of Iranian industry workers and inventors (October 1983), as quoted in "Imam's Sahife", Volume 18 (pp. 189-190), December 11, 1983.

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• My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

  Carl Reiner

  Father, Work Ethic, House

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the inventor of national workshops and of the theory that the state owed every man a living. Nay, was not the church herself the first organized democracy?

  James Russell Lowell

  Father, Men, Church

  James Russell Lowell (1889). “Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers”

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• I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly, if not the inventor, then at least one of the first systematizers of an absurd critical practice that, as soon as it had peeked its beak out of the nest, flapping its new wet wings, took flight in the minds of the young, becoming a wild ox and sowing avant-garde literature with the mighty tomes of what might as well be called the abstract bear.

  Louis Aragon

  Responsibility, Practice, Wings

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• Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Photography, Country, Art

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• The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Rights, Perfect

  Wyndham Lewis (1918). “Tarr”

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• Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Honor

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• Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Adventure, Men, Despair

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2006). “Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings Student Edition”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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• The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Hero, Character, Would Be

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• If the Nobel Prize was awarded by a woman, it would go to the inventor of the dimmer switch.

  Kathy Lette

  Invention, Nobel, Prize

  Kathy Lette (2012). “Altar Ego”, p.309, Random House

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• An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to the safety of our existence. He is also better qualified than the average individual to protect himself in peril, for he is observant and resourceful.

  Nikola Tesla

  Life, Average, Safety

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “My Inventions”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Book, Black History, Century

  "Patt Morrison Asks: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - still hooked". articles.latimes.com. March 24, 2012.

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• With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.

  Claude Bernard

  Real, Science, Men

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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• The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling.

  Bette Midler

  Names, Foundation, Opera

  Song: Otto Titsling, Album: Mud Will Be Flung Tonight!

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• It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

  Mark Twain

  Sorry, Ideas, Heaven

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm first and foremost a biological explorer. I've looked all over the world for answers. Secondly, I'm an ecological designer, and by that I mean I attempt to work with constellations of nature to create technological forms. So I'm part engineer, part ecologist, part inventor, really.

  John Todd

  Mean, Answers, World

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

  Michael Nyman

  Musician, Scratches, Use

  "He's got that thinking feeling". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2002.

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