Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom.
If Thomas Edison invented the electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS news as 'candle making industry threatened.'.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Some day some fellow will invent a way of concentrating and storing up sunshine to use instead of this old, absurd Prometheus scheme of fire.
Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no; we burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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