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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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Charles Franklin Kettering
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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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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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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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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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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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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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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 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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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