"We are striking it big in the..." - Quote by Thomas Edison

“The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.”

“The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.”

“A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.”

“I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'”

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

“Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best”

“Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.”

“Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.”

“I think our basic principle that this is a free market system and that that has worked for us, that it creates innovation and risk taking, I think that's a principle that we've gotta hold to as well. But what I don't wanna do is get bottled up in a lot of ideology and is this conservative or liberal. My interest is finding something that works.”