The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.