The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.

We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.