To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.
It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.
Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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