Sergio Ramos

I've played many matches against English clubs and the national team - and I always notice a difference in those games. When you play against the inventors of football, it adds more importance to the result, and you can see that demonstrated by the levels on the pitch.

Spanish Athlete

Salman Rushdie

We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

Indian Novelist

Paul Watzlawick

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

Austrian Psychologist

Ray Kurzweil

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.

American Inventor

Nathan Myhrvold

It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing - in the case of patents, many that own them aren't in a good position to take the next step.

American Businessman

John Sulston

The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.

British Scientist

Laura Dern

Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true.

American Actress

Neil Jackson

I'd like to be an inventor, as they look at the world in a different way and find solutions for making it better.

English Actor

Stephanie Kwolek

I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise.

American Scientist

Charles Michael Davis

For me, I always admire anyone that's entrepreneurs or inventors.

American Actor

Many inventors are historical figures with significant impact on technology and society.

Historical Figures

Inventors often become cultural icons or symbols of innovation and progress.

Cultural Impact

Some inventions are attributed to multiple inventors who worked independently.

Multiple Discoveries

 and were too smart, and so they gave up. But they want to use it -- seriously. There's a mix an inventor has to have. You have to be kind of smart, and though I did not graduate from college doesn't mean I'm stupid, because you cannot be stupid and do very much in the world today. Too many other smart people out there. So.

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 Without its inventor to keep it on track, the test he had methodically gathered so much data to support began to be used in all sorts of speculative ways. Researchers gave the test to Nazi war criminals, hoping to unlock the psychological roots of mass murder. Anthropologists showed the images to remote communities

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 for the first time in my life, I did not have to deal with my performance anxiety. And as soon as I removed all pressure and expectations from myself, that pressure quickly got replaced by enthusiasm, and it allowed me to just play. So as an inventor, I'm interested in things that people struggle with.

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 Okay? So in that regard, this is one of the things, this is one of the privileges of being, and here's another role, the inventor, and by the way, when I told you that I'm the world's greatest, if you're keeping score, we've had narcissism and solipsism and now a healthy dose of egocentricism.

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 From there, engineers and military inventors created all kinds of destructive weapons. From bombs to guns to cannons, gunpowder left its mark on the world in some pretty terrible ways, in contrast to the beautiful marks it can leave in the air. So, how does black powder propel

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 set up their system the scientists created what they call a photonic fence which in the field would have a beam of infrared light between fence posts the system detects mosquitoes and shoots them down the inventors claim all the laser parts

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 recognizing that conditioned stimulus and exploiting it circumvented the need for retraining so technology won't change the world with just one inventor it needs to spread new technology spreads rapidly when the wheel isn't

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 Based on the people we've seen at TED, I would say you're truly one of the two or three best inventors in the world right now. It's an honor to have you at TED. Thank you so much. That's fantastic.

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 What can you do? What can you do? What can we do? How might we build a more merciful country? We, the greatest inventors in the world,