We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
You can be sincere and still be stupid.
The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
