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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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 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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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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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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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 whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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One fails forward toward success.
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