Tom Morey on invention

Almost everything has not been invented yet.  Some people think of one or two new things in their lifetime.  I have the misfortune of being a fabulous inventor.

~ Tom Morey, boogie board inventor, Sports Illustrated interview, 1982

(According to The New York Times, "Mr. Morey worked on various nonsurfing inventions, including a football that produced a better spiral, a three-player chess game, a sailboat with an adjustable mast and a type of hovercraft.  He also sketched out plans for a water park called Morey Boogie Land.  None of the projects were commercialized.)

August 15, 1935 - October 14, 2021

Sir Francis Bacon on innovation

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

~ Sir Francis Bacon

Thomas Edison on progress

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

~ Thomas Alva Edison

Edison's First Lamp
1879-1929