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.

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

There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

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.

Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.