(47 quotes found)
“People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.”
Charles F. Kettering
“The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required 'blood and sweat and tears”
“Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.”
“It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run”
“The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.”
“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time, because there is”
“If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.”
“When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, ''Boss you can't do that.''”
“We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model”
“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong”
