Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

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

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.

The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

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.