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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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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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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.
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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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One fails forward toward success.
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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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