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.

Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

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 present is the past biting into the future.

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.