Inventor's Mindset Quotes

You could say I was too lazy to calculate, so I invented the computer.

I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.