As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.

But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat.

That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.

Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.

All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.

A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.

Do what gives you a buzz.

I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.

I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.

The only wealth that mattered was affinity and generosity. Affinity towards oneself and generosity towards the world itself.

You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated.

The most important thing of all was not the poverty of its ess

I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.

No one is accountable anymore for anything.

How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question.

Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Beats upon my heart. People twist and scream in pain-- Dawn will find them still again; This has neither wax nor wane, Neither stop nor start.

I'm a little bit of everything. Sometimes people think I'm not Puerto Rican, because my name doesn't sound Spanish.

A hunter in love with his prey.

Teach me to go to the country beyond words and beyond names.