You can never learn less; you can only learn more.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
You can’t change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
To do more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing.
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
If you change the environment, you change the people.
The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve.
Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective.
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
The opposite of nature is impossible.
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.