A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.

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

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

My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Work only on problems that are manifestly important and seem to be nearly impossible to solve. That way you will have a natural market for your product and no competition.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.