“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”

“You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll wan...”

“Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.”

“Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produce the first motor ca...”

“The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'wh...”

“Innovators are the ones whose dreams are clearer than the reality that tells them they're crazy.”

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”

“Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.”

“Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.”

“The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.”

“…once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…”

“Solitude is a catalyst for innovation”