We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: "Leave slide rules here." If I didn't do that, I'd find someone reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss, you can't do it."

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.