I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise.
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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!
I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
I've been an amature inventor for a long time.
I'm an inventor.
My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.
Every so often in life, you encounter a brilliant idea. Usually, at least in my case, it's somebody else's idea.
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.
I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.
Inventions are rarely just a sudden bright idea. Even if they are, they usually have antecedents in the form of pieces of the idea... Piecing these things together gives one a sense of where inventions come from, and that's interesting.
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