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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.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Derby
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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Head
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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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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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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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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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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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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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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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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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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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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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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