{"quotes":[{"text":"Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["act","action","adage","advertisement","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","architect","attacker","backbiter","belittler-knocker","big-baby","blog","blogging","book-writing","caitiff","candy-ass","carper","catch-lines","catchphrases","caviller","censurer","characters","chicken","composer","cowards","craven","creative-writing","creativity","creator","criticism","criticize","critics","critics","denigrator","deprecator","designer","detractor","developer-originator","deviser","disparager","engineer","essay","fault-finder","fear","fraidy-cat","generator","initiator","inspirational","instigator","inventor","knowledge","maker","mastermind","milksop","motivational","mouse","movie","movie-dialogue","namby-pamby","nitpicker-rare-asperser","novel-writing","philosophy","prime-mover","producer","proverbs","public-speaking","punchline","pussy-dingo","quotes","recreant","reviler","rhetoric","scaredy-cat","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","sissy","slogans","social-networking","sook-funk-poltroon","speech","speechwriting","story","tag-lines","take-action","traducer","vilifier","weakling","well-done","wisdom","wit","witty","work","writer","writing","yellow-belly"],"id":10652,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.[On his inability to keep for himself a profitable income from his invention of the Spinning Mule.].","author":"Samuel Crompton","tags":["cruelty","gift","insecure","invention","inventor","machine","profit","selflessness","spinning-mule"],"id":51719,"author_id":"Samuel+Crompton"},{"text":"I don't know what being god must feel like, but it can't be much different that being an inventor.There is power in the idea that a certain product never existed before you thought of it, there is joy in the act of bringing the idea into reality and there is contentment in seeing the product come to life when it is being used.","author":"Soumeet Lanka","tags":["design","god","inventor","joy","product-design","science"],"id":104063,"author_id":"Soumeet+Lanka"},{"text":"Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["complain","complaining","complaint","create-the-way","food-for-thought","innovate","innovation","innovator","invention","inventor","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","method","new-thing","path","pathway","road","solution","step","way"],"id":148757,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"There's no reason that anything should ever become obsolete, whether it be VHS tapes, celluloid film, print books or even the previous versions of a computer operating system, as long as even just one person still wants them around. After all, one thing leads to another, old inventions are the basis for new ones, inventors and designers and scientists and hobbyists worked hard to create all these things, so don't they deserve some respect, enough not to have their ideas buried in the dust by the latest trends and fads?","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["camera","celluloid","computer","digital-technology","fads","film","future","hobby","inventor","latest","life","microsoft","nostalgia","obsolete","old-school","popular","progress","retro","science","sheep","trends","vhs"],"id":225784,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"The patent system was established, I believe, to protect the lone inventor. In this it has not succeeded. … The patent system protects the institutions which favor invention.","author":"Ernst Alexanderson","tags":["failure","invention","inventor","patent"],"id":241396,"author_id":"Ernst+Alexanderson"},{"text":"The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["civilization","enhance","eureka","genius","ideas","invention","inventor","science","technology","tools","writer"],"id":250158,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.","author":"Raymond Loewy","tags":["astrophysics","civilization","culture","decaying-orbit","engineer","inventor","morality","science"],"id":250245,"author_id":"Raymond+Loewy"},{"text":"When Design become Useless it becomes Art. Yesterday's Artisans are today's Artists.","author":"Vineet Raj Kapoor","tags":["art","artisans","curate","curator","design","discovery","function","functional","heritage-protection","history","innovate","innovator","invention","inventor","priceless","use","usefulness","useless"],"id":257839,"author_id":"Vineet+Raj+Kapoor"},{"text":"You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["artist","change","creative","different","different-choices","different-friends","different-life","different-reactions","ingenuity","inventor","life-mission","life-purpose","perception","perspective","unfamiliar","unique"],"id":272958,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}