What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make 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.

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.

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.

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

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.