"Fooling around with alternating currents is just..." - Quote by Thomas Edison

“My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.”

“Friendship is the heaven of life.”

“After we had conducted thousands of experiments on a certain project without solving the problem, one of my associates, after we had conducted the crowning experiment and it had proved a failure, expressed discouragement and disgust over our having failed to find out anything. I cheerily assured him that we had learned something. For we had learned for a certainty that the thing couldnt be done that way, and that we would have to try some other way.”

“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.”

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

“Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.”

“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.”

“Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!”

“Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?”