There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems.

Having no knowledge is sometimes exactly what is needed to find a solution, so I qualified.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.