Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
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.
A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.