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Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling with things, making contraptions. I'd see something, go home, and try to make something even better.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.

Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do.