I love interviews with inventors, it’s a rare window into the mind of someone who just things differently than the rest of us. I thoroughly enjoyed this interview with the inventor of the Super Soaker, but there was one response that really captured the essence of why this guy is so brilliant.

There are maybe three inventions I have that I rank as my top inventions that I’m most proud of. The robot I built in high school, the memory-protected circuitry for the Galileo and the Super Soaker.
[From Lonnie Johnson Quotes - Interview with Super Soaker Inventor on Gun's 20th Birthday - Popular Mechanics]

You simply have to admire the sincerity of someone who puts a robot they built in 1968 while in high school, a memory circuit for a probe deliberately crashed into Jupiter, and a water gun all on the same plane.