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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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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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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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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 a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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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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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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