Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.

We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.

The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.

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.

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.