Inventors Quotations

We take nominations from the general public, and they go through a screening and voting, which has worked very well for the most part. But it's been a less-than-perfect system for long-dead inventors who don't have a constituency to push for them.

Our mission is to inspire the inventive genius in everyone. Leonardo is the poster child for inventive genius. And while maybe there's no one else like him in the sense that he encompassed all disciplines, there are a lot of inventors today who are crossing disciplines.

Our goal is to create technology that will enable individual inventors and entrepreneurs to provide new services of value similar to large Internet services people use every day. The companies benefit by witnessing ideas in pre-competitive technologies at the early stages of development, and they will help point out the real-world obstacles that must be overcome.

We are delighted to offer pint-sized inventors a unique opportunity to dream up their own frozen pop creations. The frozen pop was actually invented in 1905 by an 11 year old boy so we are looking forward to seeing what kids come up with in 2006.

The optimum amount of sugar in a product became known as the 'bliss point.' Food inventors and scientists spend a huge amount of time formulating the perfect amount of sugar that will send us over the moon and send products flying off the shelves.

The reason is that the Patent and Trademark Office can deny patents to inventors that publicly provided details of their invention.

We wanted it to be useful to everyday New Englanders, ... We have the town common, weve got the Kennedy family, we have Revolutionary War heroes, we have great mills, we have New England inventors ... But then we have the very new - we have biotechnology and the computer industry.

America has consistently been the best place in the world to innovate . . . and it's more important today because we're not a low-cost manufacturing or agricultural economy. So getting applicants and inventors involved in the process is important.

I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'

The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.

A lot of makers and inventors are really proud of their barbecue-powered pool heater, or whatever it is.

Through the MOTOFWRD competition we are inspiring rising innovators to inspire us, ... The ability to dream, to imagine the possibility, is one of the greatest assets of today's youth and this program allows the next generation of scientists, inventors and designers to show us their best.