Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.
What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.
I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.
A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.
I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of before. I can't tell you exactly what, though, because they might actually happen one day!
Getting caught is the mother of invention.
People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise.