Any Problem Can Be Solved As Long

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.

It Is A Curious Property Of Research Activity That After The Problem Has Been Solved The Solution Seems Obvious. This Is True Not Only For Those Who Have Not Previously Been Acquainted With The Problem, But Also For Those Who Have Worked Over It For Years.

An Essential Aspect Of Creativity Is Not Being Afraid To Fail. Scientists Made A Great Invention By Calling Their Activities Hypotheses And Experiments. They Made It Permissible To Fail Repeatedly Until In The End They Got The Results They Wanted. In Politics Or Government, If You Made A Hypothesis And It Didn't Work Out, You Had Your Head Cut Off.

All You Have Learned From History Is Old Ways Of Making Mistakes. There Is Nothing That History Can Tell You About What We Must Do Tomorrow. Only What We Must Not Do.

We Took On Things Which People Might Think Would Take A Year Or Two. They Weren't Particularly Hard. What Was Hard Was Believing They Weren't Hard.