The price of progress is trouble.
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.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.
What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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.
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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.
I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
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.
One fails forward toward success.
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.
When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it."
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.
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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.
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.
All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.
It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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