But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

Things that are ultimately complex must have a simple end user experience if they are to be successful.

Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.

There's just a certain fear that people have when they put meat coming out of a printer in their mouth.

In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

My transition from scientist to entrepreneur? Some would say that I still haven't made that transition.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

I'm wondering how people are so creative, and how many things were born out of and inspired by the Cube.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

A lot of people, even if they know what VR is, see it as this tool to go in your basement and play Halo.

IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.

As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

With a little more tweaking, we could make orange juice in the orange without any packaging or processing.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.

Television is a gift of God, and God will hold those who utilize his divine instrument accountable to him.

Pong can clearly be credited with having starting the coin-operated arcade videogame industry with a bang!

I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!

I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure

I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.

In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles.

Not everything in life can go perfectly according to plan. I mean I didn't keep every girlfriend I ever had.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.

I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States.

We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether.

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