You know when I read pieces like this, I really really feel so insignficant (not in a bad way). I mean what does it actually feel like to be in the shoes of such awesome folk? Their thought processes are so unlike normal people. And yet there is a certain humility to them. aaaaaaaaah. brain exploding just being unable to fathom that whole other realm of brilliance! Even coming up with something like "thinking about the future because Il be spending about the rest of my life in it"... sounds so casual and "obvious"! yet so profound...

Edit: Sorry that was a bit out of place I think. The "piece" I was referring to was actually http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/streamliners/peopleevents/p_ket..., which I came about by googling Kettering.

My favorite:

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though. -Mikhail Kalashnikov

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams

Some committees are pretty awesome. Haskell.