True Creativity Is Characterized By A Succession

One Of The Best Ways To Keep A Great Secret Is To Shout It.

If This Is Preparation For Life, Where In The World, Where In The Relationship With Our Colleagues, Where In The Industrial Domain, Where Ever Again, Anywhere In Life, Is A Person Given This Curious Sequence Of Prepared Talks And Prepared Questions, Questions To Which The Answers Are Known?

I Believe Each Incoming Freshman [in College] Must Be Started At Once On His Own Research Project If We Are To Preserve His Secret Dream Of Greatness And Make It Come True.

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.

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!