"We will make electricity so cheap that..." - Quote by Thomas Edison

“A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.”

“We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.”

“The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.”

“The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.”

“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”

“When you look at the possibilities instead of the problems, the future is filled with endless opportunities”

“We now buy watches primarily for their looks, price, or additional functions. The fact that they tell time seems lost.”

“If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.”

“One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.”