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| Charles Kettering
A inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too
seriously.A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need. It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again. It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off
the ship in the storm.
-People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have. -The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living. The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution. The only time you can't afford failure is the last time you try.The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer. There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand. We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. |
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