Woody Norris Quotes & Sayings

“I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.”

“It's embarrassing that we're in the 21st century and we don't even know what makes gravity work. I'm getting older and thinking maybe I should tackle more than the mundane. I may fail, but at least I will have tried.”

“I wasn't much into girlfriends. I was too busy tinkering in the garage.”

“I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave.”

“There's a smugness that goes with being a huge company. The big fish say, 'If it's so great, why didn't we invent it?' But how'd you like to be makin' buggy whips when cars came along?”

“I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.”

“I've been really lucky as an inventor. I'm the happiest guy you're ever going to meet. And my dad died before he realized anybody in the family would maybe, hopefully, make something out of themselves.”

“I'm an inventor. I don't enjoy running the business.”

“I'm interested in everything.”

“I'm very simple. I have to be. I'm not very smart. I start broad, then go deep where I'm interested.”