I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.

Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

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

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.

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.