Do Not Do Anything That Anyone Else

Don't Undertake A Project Unless It Is Manifestly Important And Nearly Impossible.

In My Opinion, Neither Organisms Nor Organizations Evolve Slowly And Surely Into Something Better, But Drift Until Some Small Change Occurs Which Has Immediate And Overwhelming Significance. The Special Role Of The Human Being Is Not To Wait For These Favorable Accidents But Deliberately To Introduce The Small Change That Will Have Great Significance.

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.

There's A Tremendous Popular Fallacy Which Holds That Significant Research Can Be Carried Out By Trying Things. Actually It Is Easy To Show That In General No Significant Problem Can Be Solved Empirically, Except For Accidents So Rare As To Be Statistically Unimportant. One Of My Jests Is To Say That We Work Empirically -- We Use Bull's Eye Empiricism. We Try Everything, But We Try The Right Thing First!

In This Country, There Is An Opportunity For The Development Of Man's Intellectual, Cultural, And Spiritual Potentialities That Has Never Existed Before In The History Of Our Species. I Mean Not Simply An Opportunity For Greatness For A Few, But An Opportunity For Greatness For The Many.