I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.
Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.
I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring to the world a wonderful and special way of solving unsolved problems, that in his special way, he can be great.
We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.