Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.
This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
The price of progress is trouble.
I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.
Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors. I'd like to take the automobile it is said they predicted could be made now that would last fifty years. Even if never used, this automobile would not be worth anything except to a junkman in ten years, because of the changes in men's tastes and ideas. This desire for change is an inherent quality in human nature, so that the present generation must not try to crystallize the needs of the future ones.
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
One fails forward toward success.
People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.
The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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