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.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

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.

Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.