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."

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

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.

It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.