Bill Gates Quotes

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

Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.

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.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

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

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

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

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

Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches of helicopters at a time when they weren't even invented!

Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

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

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

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Architecture is invention.

I'm an inventor.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn't mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

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.