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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.
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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
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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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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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