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“When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, ''Boss you can't do that.''”
Charles F. Kettering quotes (American engineer, inventor of the electric starter, 1876-1958)

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“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong”
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“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”
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“There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it”
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“You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
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“The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.”
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“The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.”
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“People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.”
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“People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.”
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“We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model”
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“The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required 'blood and sweat and tears”
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