Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart."
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Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
"I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'"
Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"Inventors don't have time for married life."
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds."
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"I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator."
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"A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor."
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"I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better."
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"I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something]."
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"The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from."
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"Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy."
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"I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor."
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"Death is the inventor of God."
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