As I review the nature of the creative drive in the inventive scientists that have been around me, as well as in myself, I find the first event is an urge to make a significant intellectual contribution that can be tangible embodied in a product or process.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.

The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

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.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

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