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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
Philosophy
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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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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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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 key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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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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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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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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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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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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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