Nikola Tesla Quotes

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

I like to think about the future and how things can be done better than they are now. That's what engineers do.

I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.

We outsmarted ourselves and raised the bar even higher, I think.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.

Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.

Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

We should have more invention.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?

Doubt is the father of invention.

Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.