Sara Davies Quotes

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

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

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

I'm an inventor.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

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

My training and my inclination is to invent.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

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.

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

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

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

I ended up going to do a matches program at the state for industrial design. And from there, I got hired at IDEO to joint their design team there - and basically, you are starting as an industrial designer to design products - and then kept asking the question, 'What else can design accomplish? What else can design do?'

It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before.

Anyone can dream up great ideas, but an idea is nothing until it's realized, be it as a website, a physical product, an app, or a user interface.

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.

A team that can build a stronger car, a stronger working environment. A team that has the possibility to create something, that would be interesting.

Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the child of far-flung parents who may never meet.

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 often get asked if I think I'm ever going to build something useful, and maybe someday I will.

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

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.