Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

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.

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

We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors. I'd like to take the automobile it is said they predicted could be made now that would last fifty years. Even if never used, this automobile would not be worth anything except to a junkman in ten years, because of the changes in men's tastes and ideas. This desire for change is an inherent quality in human nature, so that the present generation must not try to crystallize the needs of the future ones.

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.