In Philadelphia our public safety poverty reduction health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.

Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.

That's what keeps me going: dreaming inventing then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

My dad was an inventor and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology or at least its potential.

From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad went to the penny candy store bought a dollar's worth of candy set up my booth and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory made $2.50 gave my dad back his dollar.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

My message especially to young people is to have courage to think differently courage to invent to travel the unexplored path courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York Los Angeles or London which made them completely out of style in the 1970s but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.

Most of the musicians that I know almost to the man everybody uses Apple computers. They've thought of the steps that you're going to think of when you're trying to create your thing. And that's where the tools get invented to make better art.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

It frequently happens that two persons reasoning right on a mechanical subject think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange provided we are willing.