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The price of progress is trouble.

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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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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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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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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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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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