The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

You have to appreciate where you have come from to know who you are in the present and whom you would like to be in the future.

True freedom comes from being unknown.

Do you smoke, Herr Cabal?""Only to be antisocial, " replied Cabal, making no move.

. . . you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

I loved performing; I was always trying to impress my siblings by being a clown. I think that came from being the runt of the litter.

Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.