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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

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

Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

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

If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.

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

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

I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

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

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.


"It is not a disgrace to fail.
Failing is one of the
greatest arts in the world."
Charles Kettering








"A problem well stated is
a problem half solved."

Charles Kettering

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