Research is an organized method of trying to find out what you are going to do after you cannot do what you are doing now. It may also be said to be the method of keeping a customer reasonably dissatisfied with what he has. That means constant improvement and change so that the customer will be stimulated to desire the new product enough to buy it to replace the one he has.

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it's going to be. That is my reason for planning.

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.