People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

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.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

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 problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.