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.

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.

Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.