"We are in rapid transition today to a new world which threatens to be dominated by technological advance. In that new…"

"Well, Benny, now that we know the thing can fly, all we have to do is improve its range a bit."

"In April 1946, when I came to Hughes Aircraft to institute high-technology research and development, it was far from …"

"My final word about editing. I was to appear on the cover of a business magazine, and the writer who came to intervie…"

"Whether what you manage is a business, hospital, university department, government agency or even a symphony orchestr…"

"We must realize that growth is but an adolescent phase of life that stops when physical maturity is reached. If growt…"

"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is man's inability to understand the exponential function."

"Can you think of any problem in any area of human endeavor on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term …"

"In an enterprise such as the building of the atomic bomb the difference between ideas, hopes, suggestions and theoret…"

"I remember having listened to Fermi’s discussions on hydrodynamics with von Neumann. (These took the strange form of …"