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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
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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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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 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 easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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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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