I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

Friendship is the heaven of life.

Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled - will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.