We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.

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.

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."

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