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.

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

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.

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.

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.