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

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

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.

Research is industrial prospecting. The oil prospectors use every scientific means to find new paying wells. Oil is found by each one of a number of methods. My own group of men are prospecting in a different field, using every possible scientific means. We believe there are still things left to be discovered. We have only stumbled upon a few barrels of physical laws from the great pool of knowledge. Some day we are going to hit a gusher.

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.

What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.