I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.
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Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.
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.
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.
People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.