Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised. Votes: 0
An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor, Votes: 0
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. Votes: 0
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly. Votes: 0
The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from. Votes: 0
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society. Votes: 0
Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible. Votes: 0
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble. Votes: 4 Agatha Christie
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. Votes: 6 Ambrose Bierce