Tod Machover Quotes

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.

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.

My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.

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.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

Engineering is not quite as important as imagination.

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

I think in order to keep America great, we have to keep America creative.

I'm an inventor.

To make any future that we dreamt up real requires creative scientists, engineers, and technologists to make it happen. If people are not within your midst who dream about tomorrow - with the capacity to bring tomorrow into the present - then the country might as well just recede back into the cave because that's where we're headed.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

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

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.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

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

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

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