If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

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.

I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

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."