A clearly worded problem is already half solved.
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Alle Fehler sind Wegweiser zum Fortschritt.
An inventor is an engineer who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Beim Stillstehen stößt man sich die Zehen nicht an. Je schneller du dich bewegst, desto größer ist die Chance, daß du dir die Zehen schmerzlich anstößt; gleichzeitig wächst aber auch die Chance, rasch voranzukommen.
Bekommen, was man sich wünscht, ist Erfolg. Sich wünschen, was man bekommen kann, ist Glück.
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Die große Gefahr für die Menschheit liegt in der ständig steigenden Perfektion bei gleichbleibender menschlicher Unzulänglichkeit.
Ein klar formuliertes Problem ist schon halb gelöst.
Ein Problem wird nicht im Computer gelöst, sondern in irgendeinem Kopf. Die ganze Apparatur dient nur dazu, diesen Kopf so weit zu drehen, daß er die Dinge richtig und vollständig sieht.
Glück ist meistens nur ein Sammelname für Tüchtigkeit, Klugheit, Fleiß und Beharrlichkeit.
Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live the rest of my life there, and I'd like it to be a nice place.
Ich bin sehr an der Zukunft interessiert, denn ich werde den Rest meines Lebens in ihr verbringen.
If we would quit studying history and go ahead and study the future, we would be much better off. The future course of your lives will be spent in the future and it ought to be what you think. If you want a good one, it will be good. If you want a bad one, it will be bad. It can be good or bad.
In many ways ideas are more important than people – they are much more permanent.
Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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.
Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.
Niemand hätte jemals den Ozean überquert, wenn er die Möglichkeit gehabt hätte, bei Sturm das Schiff zu verlassen.
Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
Problems are the price of progress: Don't bring me anything but trouble – good news weakens me.
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