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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.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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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.
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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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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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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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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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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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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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