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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.

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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 great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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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 a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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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.
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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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