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

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

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true not only for those who have not previously been acquainted with the problem, but also for those who have worked over it for years.

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

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.

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

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.