"The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work."
-Charles Kettering
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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.“
-Charles Kettering
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