An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.
Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it’s you.
Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.