The Second Great Product Of Industry Should

Work Only On Problems That Are Manifestly Important And Seem To Be Nearly Impossible To Solve. That Way You Will Have A Natural Market For Your Product And No Competition.

An Invention That Is Quickly Accepted Will Turn Out To Be A Rather Trivial Alteration Of Something That Has Already Existed.

You Always Start With A Fantasy. Part Of The Fantasy Technique Is To Visualize Something As Perfect. Then With The Experiments You Work Back From The Fantasy To Reality, Hacking Away At The Components.

As I Review The Nature Of The Creative Drive In The Inventive Scientists That Have Been Around Me, As Well As In Myself, I Find The First Event Is An Urge To Make A Significant Intellectual Contribution That Can Be Tangible Embodied In A Product Or Process.

I Don't Mind Conducting The Orchestra If I Can Play The Violin.