There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.

In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year - year after year - we have an average of two million automobiles standing in front of red lights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full of efforts of 200 million horses being completley wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere.

It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.