People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.

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.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

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