Prince Philip Quotes

My training and my inclination is to invent.

The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.

Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed.

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.

If I could do anything, I'd be an engineer of some sort. I used to build robots.

Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

I'm an inventor.

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

We should have more invention.

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

Machines cannot make machines, unless back of them all are the brains and toil of men.

I got no thrill from solving an integral equation, but I did get a thrill from building an exotic piece of equipment that worked.

A brilliant mind having a eureka moment could not create an Intel microprocessor containing a billion transistors any more than one person could dream up a Boeing 787 from scratch.

Pretty much all of my inventions come about the same way. I have an everyday problem or something that I'm too lazy to do, so I make a machine that does it for me.

As a former competitor, robot combat is near and dear to my heart. I enjoy the mix of creativity and mayhem that are essential to this sport.

I do something to make things nature never made but which is useful to humans.

I liked the challenge of designing and building things, figuring out how something works and how to make it better or apply it in a different way.

I love building things like robots, toys, and all of that.

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.