We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.

There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.