Invention quotes

“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
Orson Welles - Harry Lime

“Although only fifty Tuckers were ever produced, forty six of them are still road worthy and in use today. Tucker's innovations of aerodynamic styling, padded dash, pop out windows, seat belts, fuel injection and disc brakes were slowly adopted by Detroit and are found in the cars you are driving now. Preston Tucker died of an illness six years...” (continue)(continue reading)

“Steve, all cars have steering wheels, but no one tries to claim that the steering wheel was their invention.”

Anthony Michael Hall - Bill Gates

“There are some things that shouldn't be invented.”
Mark Wahlberg - Cade Yeager

“It’s just the greatest thing that humans ever made…it’s the Vespa!”
Jack Dylan Grazer - Alberto Scorfano

“I make something impossible. They rip it away from me, so I do it again and they do it again. And again and again. This isn't like everything else. This IS everything else. Our future isn't going to be paved with bricks but with copper. Automation, transportation, communication. And the man that controls that current, controls that future.”
Benedict Cumberbatch - Thomas Alva Edison

“It seems to me that Mr. Edison puts his name on everything because he's terrified of being forgotten. But if you want to be remembered, it's simple. Shoot a president. But if you prefer to have what I call a legacy, you leave the world a better place than you found it.”
Michael Shannon - George Westinghouse

“A true legacy isn't what we build up to the heavens or carve deep into stone. Rocks will crumble,paper disintegrates, and bone turns to powder. Only that which isn't in the physical realm and reaches in both directions can be eternal. Our ideas.They are what we leave behind. And only they are what can push us forward.”
Nicholas Hoult - Nikola Tesla

“Let me welcome you to the reality of how things come into existence. We all contribute. That's what invention is. The salt, the grain, the heat, the heart. Only one man makes the bread rise. That's the one that puts it all together. Makes it taste so damn good the people will go out there, and hand over their hard-won dollars to buy it.”
Benedict Cumberbatch - Thomas Alva Edison

“The world will never be the same. I'm working on something now, something so new that people will forget I was ever associated with electricity.”
Benedict Cumberbatch - Thomas Alva Edison

“- Maurice: I mean it this time! I'll never get this boneheaded contraption to work!
- Belle: Yes you will, and you'll win first prize at the fair tomorrow.
[Maurice frowns]
- Belle: And become a world famous inventor.
- Maurice: You really believe that?
- Belle: I always have.”

Rex Everhart - Maurice
Paige O'Hara - Belle

“- Reporter: Did you have any idea it would be such a huge response?
- Norville: Well frankly, I don't think anybody expected this much hoopla.”

Tim Robbins - Norville Barnes

“Oh, you poor, poor dear. You could have married Elliot Firestone, the man who invented the wheel. Instead you picked Fred Flintstone, the man who invented the excuse!”

Liz Taylor - Pearl Slaghoople

“- F.B.I. Director Womack: What do you know about V.X. gas?
- Stanley Goodspeed: Liquid; failed pesticide; discovered by mistake in 1952. Uhh, actually, it's kind of like champagne that way. The Franciscan monks thought they were making white wine. Somehow the bottle carbonated. Voila, champagne, and uhh, then the whole thing...
- F.B.I. Director...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Spencer - F.B.I. Director Womack

“That's Lyle. He's my computer genius. You know he's who really invented Napster? At least that's how Lyle tells it. Said Shawn Fanning was his roommate in college and stole his idea.”

Mark Wahlberg - Charlie Croker

Edward Bailey was a genius physicist who built some of the greatest stuff during the Cold War. Neutron bombs, particle beam weapons, nerve gas. Excellent nerve gas. You know, he was a... rock star of conceptual mass killing. They called him the "The Da Vinci of Death".
John Malkovich - Marvin

“The most versatile substance on the planet, and they used it to build a Frisbee.”

James Spader - Ultron

“Newton created a neural bridge from garbage and drifted with a Kaiju!”
Burn Gorman - Herman Gottlieb

“I'm gonna find the guy who invented Xylocaine and kiss his ass on Hollywood and Vine!”
Burt Reynolds - Sonny Hooper

“I built this for you. It represents my life's work. This is the key to the future. I'm limited by the technology of my time, but one day you'll figure this out. And when you do, you will change the world.”

John Slattery - Howard Stark

“- Willy Wonka: [making a mysterious formula] Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
- Mrs. Teevee: That's 105%!”
Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka
Nora Denney - Mrs. Teevee

“- James West: Artie, that's a cliff!
- Artemus Gordon: Yes, I know!
- James West: That means the ground is gonna end!
- Artemus Gordon: Yes, I know!”

Will Smith - James West
Kevin Kline - Artemus Gordon

“- Joshua Peters: Excuse me, does this belong to you?
- Sylvia: Now what's he gone and done?
- Joshua Peters: Well, he was creating a fairly sophisticated surveillance system behind the ladies' cabana.”
Mark Wahlberg - Joshua Peters
Sakina Jaffrey - Sylvia

“- Rosalie Octavius: You need to sleep soundly tonight.
- Dr. Otto Octavius: Did Edison sleep before he turned on the light bulb? Did Marconi sleep before he turned on the radio? Did Beethoven sleep before he wrote the fifth?
- Peter Parker: Did Bernoulli sleep before he found the curves of quickest descent?”
Donna Murphy - Rosalie Octavius
Alfred Molina - Dr. Otto Octavius
Tobey Maguire - Peter Parker

“- Reporter #1: Dr. Kellogg, how did you come to invent the corn flake?
- Dr. John Harvey Kellogg: The corn flake, sir, is just one of my 75 creations for heathy livin', among them peanut butter and the electric blanket.”
Rich Valliere - Reporter #1
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Dr. John Harvey Kellogg