There Is No Disgrace In Honest Failure;

I Invented Nothing New. I Simply Assembled The Discoveries Of Other Men Behind Whom Were Centuries Of Work. Had I Worked Fifty Or Ten Or Even Five Years Before, I Would Have Failed. So It Is With Every New Thing. Progress Happens When All The Factors That Make For It Are Ready, And Then It Is Inevitable. To Teach That A Comparatively Few Men Are Responsible For The Greatest Forward Steps Of Mankind Is The Worst Sort Of Nonsense.

When The Leaves Of The Strongest Tree Fall, Spring Is Here.

When One Speaks Of Increasing Power, Machinery, And Industry There Comes Up A Picture Of A Cold, Metallic Sort Of World In Which Great Factories Will Drive Away The Trees, The Flowers, The Birds, And The Green Fields. And That Then We Shall Have A World Composed Of Metal Machines And Human Machines. With All Of That I Do Not Agree. I Think That Unless We Know More About The Machines And Their Use, Unless We Better Understand The Mechanical Portion Of Life, We Cannot Have The Time To Enjoy The Trees, And The Birds, And The Flowers, And The Green Fields.

The High Wage Begins Down In The Shop. If It Is Not Created There It Cannot Get Into Pay Envelopes. There Will Never Be A System Invented Which Will Do Away With The Necessity For Work.

Don't Expect People To Respect You For What You Are "planning" To Do.