Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

My training and my inclination is to invent.

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.

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

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

I think I'd be quite good at Builder, like designer, construction... I've always liked making things. I'm quite good with my hands. So I think I'd be quite good at designing new inventions.

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.

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

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

Men actually flew 1000 years ago…. An important thing about Eilmer's and Ibn Firnas's inventions of the glider is that both occurred in intellectual environments that fostered invention. Ibn Firnas lived during the Golden Age of Islamic art and science, and Eilmer belonged to the Benedictine order, which saw God Himself as a master craftsman.

I have a fondness for technology. It's great to spend hours puttering around with mechanical things gotten from junkyards and visualizing what their use might be. Especially if you come across a gadget or tool and you don't know what it is and you try to figure it out. I'm fascinated by processes, whatever they might be.

Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.

If I look into my past, I was definitely into inventors. I was into stories of Edison and Tesla and da Vinci and all these guys making stuff in their garage.

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.

Problem-solving is essential to engineering. Engineers are constantly on the lookout for a better way to do things.

I've always been interested in mechanical things. I think I must have been heavily influenced by my father, who is also very good with his hands. He liked to build things. I always loved to watch him do it, and I loved to build things on my own.

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

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

I'm an inventor.

I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

Learn how a 3D printer works. Get inspired. Make your own stuff. It is a wonderful time to be innovative. Connect things together. If you're into electronics, get an Arduino.