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

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.

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.

You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.

Industry is best at the intersection of science and art.

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.