Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

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.

If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.

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

Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.