Colin Angle Quotes

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.

I just like to build things and do things.

I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

I've always had an appetite for creating in some capacity.

I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.

It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before.

Even when I was young, I would build things with Lego or make 'robots' out of cereal boxes - long before I learned metalwork. The desire to build was always there.

It's easier to destroy than it is to create, but I've always enjoyed the creative aspect of the game.

Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling with things, making contraptions. I'd see something, go home, and try to make something even better.

Some people like to paint and sing. We like to create and build.

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

My compulsion is to create things.

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

Devising a mechanism is a lot like solving a puzzle - and gives you the same kind of kick.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn't in the world before. It doesn't matter what it is. It doesn't matter if it's a table or a film or gardening-everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, 'I did that.'

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.