Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts

I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.