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.

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

99 percent of success is built on failure.

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

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

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

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.