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."

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

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.

I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.

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