I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine.

I think that Ingersoll had all the attributes of a perfect man, and, in my opinion, no finer personality ever existed. Judging from the past, I cannot help thinking that the intention of the Supreme Intelligence that rules the world is to ultimately make such a type of man universal.

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.

Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.

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

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.