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

I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.

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

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.