Charles Franklin Kettering citáty

„Je třeba věci dělat nově. Pokud jste tuto věc dělali takhle vždycky, je to pravděpodobně špatně.“

„Každý, kdo chce být vědcem, musí být ochoten devětadevadesátkrát selhat, než dosáhne jednoho úspěchu.“

„Dobře definovaný problém je již způli vyřešený.“

Originál: (en) An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
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„Zajímám se o svoji budoucnost, protože v ní hodlám strávit zbytek života.“

“I am not worried about the future at all. I don't like to run it down. I don't like to think of it being too dark because I expect to spend all the rest of my life there and I don't want to have a nasty end to it.”

Originál: (en) My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. Zdroj: Instruments and Control Systems, Volume 20, 1947, p. 374 https://books.google.com/books?id=gBonAAAAMAAJ&q=%22my+interest+is+in+the+future+because+i+am+going+to+spend+the+rest+of+my+life+there%22+kettering. Zdroj: Biography: Charles Kettering http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/streamliners-kettering/, American Experience, PBS. Zdroj: The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives, by Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen, 2014, p. 337 https://books.google.com/books?id=SSWODQAAQBAJ&pg=PA337&q=kettering#v=onepage

Charles Franklin Kettering: Citáty anglicky

“Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering, editor Thomas Alvin Boyd, 1961”

"Mr. Kettering's Talk", News and Views, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, General Exchange Insurance Corporation, Motors Insurance Corporation, 1936, p. 46 https://books.google.com/books?id=G2hEAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22the+rest+of+my+life+there%22 Variants: I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there, and I would like it to be a nice place, polished, bright, glistening, and glorious. Quoted in Professional Amateur: The Biography of Charles Franklin Kettering, by T. A. Boyd 1957, pp. 3–4 ( Internet Archive https://archive.org/stream/professionalamat013190mbp/professionalamat013190mbp_djvu.txt, Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=42Ohg0wKaWsC&pg=PA4&dq=%22I+object+to+people+running+down+the+future%22) My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. Common, since 1947. Examples: Instruments and Control Systems, Volume 20, 1947, p. 374 https://books.google.com/books?id=gBonAAAAMAAJ&q=%22my+interest+is+in+the+future+because+i+am+going+to+spend+the+rest+of+my+life+there%22+kettering; " Biography: Charles Kettering http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/streamliners-kettering/", American Experience, PBS; The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives, by Eric Schmidt, , 2014, p. 337 https://books.google.com/books?id=SSWODQAAQBAJ&pg=PA337&q=kettering#v=onepage Kontext: You know, you read about the future. You can't help that. I don't look upon the future. I am not a politician. I am not worried about the future at all. I don't like to run it down. I don't like to think of it being too dark because I expect to spend all the rest of my life there and I don't want to have a nasty end to it.

“The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.”

References

“A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.”

As quoted in Dynamic Work Simplification (1971) by W. Clements Zinck, p. 12

“We find that in research a certain amount of intelligent ignorance is essential to progress; for, if you know too much, you won't try the thing.”

As quoted in Dynamic Work Simplification (1971) by W. Clements Zinck, p. 122

“Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.”

quoted in Professional Amateur: The Biography Of Charles Franklin Kettering, Thomas Alvin Boyd, 1957 page 106 ( Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/professionalamat013190mbp)

“You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.”

As quoted in Boss Ket (1961) by Rosamond McPherson Young p. 194

“The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.”

As quoted in Scientific American (August 1934) p. 243

“We think we are smart because we have been flying for about sixty years. Birds and bees and butterflies have been flying for hundreds of thousands of years.”

As quoted in The End of Work (1995) by Jeremy Rifkin, p. 19

“More Tales of Boss Ket: An Informal and Unpublished Sequel to the Book, "Professional Amateur, the Biography of Charles Franklin Kettering", Thomas Alvin Boyd, 1969”

as quoted in Boss Ket (1961) by Rosamond McPherson Young p. 194

“Logic is a way of going wrong systematically.”

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