“As an administrator, I always hired people whose experience greatly surpassed mine, especially in areas that necessitated more knowledge than I possessed.”

“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”

“For years I have told my students that I been trying to train executives rather than clerks. The distinction between the two is parallel to the distinction previously made between understanding and knowledge. It is a mighty low executive who cannot hire several people with command of more knowledge than he has himself.”

“I always look for people whose ideas coincide with mine, and then I'm ready to give them a chance to make a name for themselves.”

“We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of schizophrenic experience to help us understand Mesolithic man.”

“I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.”

“It is not just age; it's accomplishments, it's experience. I have far more experience than many others that sought the office of vice president of this country. I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency. I will be prepared to deal with the people in the Bush administration, if that unfortunate event would ever occur.”

“…possessed of more self-knowledge, which is the kind of knowledge that makes people attractive.”

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”

“I have always found It in mine own experience an easier matter to devise manie and profitable inventions, than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.”