"I was always afraid of things that..." - Quote by Thomas Edison

“No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!”

“I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.”

“Seeming to do is not doing.”

“I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.”

“And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.”

“I try not to invent things that people don't need.”

“Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.”

“Living is like tearing through a museum.”

“There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.”