Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.

The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

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

There has never been any 30-hour week for men who had anything to do.

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.