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.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

Don't bring anything to me but trouble.

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.

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.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.