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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 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 only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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 time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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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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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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