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"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
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"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

"There's a huge misconception that innovation is mostly about inventing or coming up with cool new things. More often than not, innovation is about figuring out what people really need or want but can't have or afford."

"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."

"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

"America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information."

"I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'"

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"

"Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory."

"If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things."

"To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines."
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"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

"There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency and a vice."

"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain."

"The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe."

"Life itself is only a vision, a dream.""Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars--a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space--and you!"
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