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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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