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.

Whenever you look at a piece of work and you think the fellow was crazy, then you want to pay some attention to that. One of you is likely to be, and you had better find out which one it is. It makes an awful lot of difference.

Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.