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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.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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