Best quotes by Lonnie Johnson on Technology

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  • Being an independent inventor is tough. You develop a product, patent it, then you're looking for someone who will see the benefit from this technology. You assume all the investment and all the risk. It can be a challenge.
    - Lonnie Johnson
  • I got my first patent in 1979 before I left the Air Force. I called it the Digital Distance Measuring Instrument. It used ones and zeros and dots and dashes and a magnifying lens to read binary-encoded information from a scale that was photographically reduced. It used the same kind of technology that's used in CDs and DVDs.
    - Lonnie Johnson
  • I am a nuclear engineer. I'm working on advanced energy technology. I have a new type of the engine that converts heat into electricity, and I've also developed a new type of battery that's all ceramic, without liquid electrolyte.
    - Lonnie Johnson
  • Peer review is fine, as long as you're making incremental improvements to a technology.
    - Lonnie Johnson
  • Especially when you have a lot of technology you're developing as a small company, trying to protect that technology is a real problem.
    - Lonnie Johnson