"In creating technology for ourselves we created..." - Quote by Thomas Edison

“I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.”

“Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.”

“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”

“The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke.”

“If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.”

“You can't be in love with a Google search.”

“We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.”

“You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that. Polaroid did that for some years, but eventually Dr. Land, one of those brilliant troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company - which is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.”

“Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.”