The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

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

One fails forward toward success.

We work day after day, not to finish things; but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.

Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.