One Of The Best Ways

Work Only On Problems That Are Manifestly Important And Seem To Be Nearly Impossible To Solve. That Way You Will Have A Natural Market For Your Product And No Competition.

Who Can Object To A Monopoly When Any New Company, If It Is Built Around A Scientific Nucleus, Can Create A New Monopoly Of Its Own By Creating A Wholly New Field?

The Test Of An Invention Is The Power Of An Inventor To Push It Through In The Face Of Staunch-not Opposition, But Indifference-in Society.

When Arthur Ashe Plays Tennis, His Purpose Each Day Is To Play The Game In A Way He Has Never Played It Before. It May Be A Backhand He Uses, One That He May Never Have Used Before In That Circumstance. His Play Is A Fresh Integration Of His World At The Instant Of Action. A Really Great Scientist Has The Whole Past At His Disposal. At Any Instant He Is Rebuilding The World, Molecule By Molecule, In His Subconscious. That Is What You Want In An Athlete Or A Scientist.

The Future May Require Not So Much Having A New Idea As Stopping Having An Old Idea.