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

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.

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

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

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

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