What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.

You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside, but you cannot need for it to come from outside.

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with.

Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.

I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Those who invest only to get rich will fail. Those who invest to help others will probably succeed.

One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.

If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.

Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention.

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

I didn't even dream it would be so good. But I would never let my children come close to the thing.

People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.

When you're providing a service to somebody, you're the guy they always call when something's wrong.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.

An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.

My wife and I are always concerned about how long it's going to take to eat out. You just don't know.

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

I think Apple's revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.

We must look forward to the future as that is where most of us will be spending the rest of our lives.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

The big thing for me is, I never think about myself as a female in business. I'm a person in business.

The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country.

I was trying to perform as best as possible. I was a boy at the time, but worked well with the sickle.

The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.

My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.

Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Sleep is like a drug. Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time and opportunities.

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm.

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