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

I try not to invent; I try simply to translate the weird language of the natural world. And I'm not into absolute ownership of things.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

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

I'm an inventor.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

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

I have to reinvent myself.

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