A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

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.

If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.

I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.