Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
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The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
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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.
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Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
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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.
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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.
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