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

Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

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

In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent.

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