Do Not Do Anything That Anyone Else

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.

Who Can Object To A Monopoly When Any New Company, If It Is Built Around A Scientific Nucleus, Can Create A New Monopoly Of Its Own By Creating A Wholly New Field?

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.

Someone Is Going To Make Your Product Obsolete. Make Sure It's You.

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.