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

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

“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...”

“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.”

“Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.”

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

“The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not t...”

“That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetiti...”

“As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen so are all innovations which are the births of time.”

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”