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The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

- John F. Kennedy

I`ve been an amature inventor for a long time.

- Billy Sheehan

If it weren`t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we`d still be eating frozen radio dinners.

- Johnny Carson

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

- Julian Casablancas

(But his role in the actual invention was murkier, disputed over decades in the courts and even now in scientific circles.) You would have a lot of argument, ... Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the 30-Year Patent War.

- Nick Taylor

Epictetus was a peasant child born about 50 A.D. who grew up to be a well-known Stoic philosopher, ... In modern buzz-word speak, he was the inventor of `What people think of me is none of my business.` So I got really hooked on him.

- Rodney Crowell

He was sort of an inventor of a tough-guy look, whether he knew it or not.

- David Carson

(Matthews wonders if Google will go the way of Eli Whitney.) The cotton gin changed America, ... It revitalized the South and boosted the British textile industry, and had a thousand other effects. And this earned the inventor, Eli Whitney, almost nothing.

- Mark Matthews

People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller.

- Scott Turow

Staples Invention Quest gives hope to the everyday inventor and helps them understand the steps it takes to bring new product ideas to life. I was amazed and inspired by Sarah`s SpindleRack along with the other unique ideas that everyone had.

- Kendra Todd

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn`t take his education too seriously.

- Aaron McNally

It`s strange, it`s a British Inventor of the Year and I`m Australian, but I`ve been here for 25 years, so I guess I`m sort of qualified.

- Alan Meckler

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.

- Alli Macko

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

- Amy Clark

I`m an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

- Amy Panikowski

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

- Amy Panikowski

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

- Amy Saelens

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

- Alfred Hitchcock

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

- Aaron McNally

That`s here. That`s home. That`s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every `superstar,` every `supreme leader,` every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

- Dr. Carl Sagan

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

- Ambrose Bierce