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I don't like Thomas Edison. I'm a fan of Nicolai Tesla. -- David Lynch
I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie. -- Dhani Harrison
The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology. -- Kage Baker
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? -- Al Boliska
One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves. -- Earl Monroe
We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. -- Milton Berle
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. -- Napoleon Hill
My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence. -- Michael J. Saylor
Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. -- Al Jardine
When I was a kid, which was just after Edison invented moving pictures, there were films that involved aliens coming to Earth for bad purposes. -- Seth Shostak
To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates. -- Mark McCormack
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton. -- David Antin
Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names. -- Robert Hormats
Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence. -- Larry Ellison
Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner. -- Marc Guggenheim
What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years. -- Stephen Leacock
I had moved out of the Edison Hotel because I couldn't pay the bill and was living at the Lincoln Hotel, where I couldn't pay the bill either, but it was cheaper. -- Allan Sherman
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent. -- George Carlin
And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions. -- William Scranton
I was really proud that I was named after Thomas Edison and wanted to be called Edson. I thought Pele sounded horrible. It was a rubbish name. Edson sounded so much more serious and important. -- Pele
What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb. -- Glenn Beck
When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary. -- Henry Ford
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. -- Nikola Tesla
The 1910 Edison film of Frankenstein was itself a dead thing revived by technology. -- Kage Baker
Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams. -- Ralph Lauren
I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing. -- Quentin Tarantino
If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles. -- Mark McCormack
Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips. -- Steven Spielberg
If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb. -- Nathan Fielder
They laughed at Edison and Einstein, but somehow I still feel uncomfortable when they laugh at me. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable. -- Arthur Brisbane
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'. -- Newt Gingrich
The average person would have quit at the first failure. That's why there have been many average men and only one Edison. -- Napoleon Hill
I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did. -- Steve Jobs
Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions. -- Ernest Dimnet
We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison! -- will.i.am
I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful. -- John Green
It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today. -- Benjamin Carson
You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison. -- Pete Seeger
Sweets [Edison] can say more with one note than any other Jazz player alive... an approach that stresses simplicity, glorious tone, natural potency and an unmatched affinity. He is a unique stylist in our music. -- Oscar Peterson
A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up there too. He is unique, in every sense of the term. -- Freddie Hubbard
Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity. What's the point of being realistic? It's unrealistic to walk into a room, flip a switch, and have light come on, but fortunately Edison didn't think so. -- Will Smith
The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented. -- Dave Barry
Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas "Fscking" Edison. -- Neal Stephenson
Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my assembly line. Mr. Edison, you built an assembly line which brought together the genius of invention, science and industry. -- Henry Ford
[Sweets Edison] was one of the greatest stylists in Jazz of all time. And on top of that, when you listen to him, you say 'yes, that's Sweets' and you automatically smile. This is really unique. He changed the way how to play this instrument. -- Clark Terry
Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it. -- Bob Dylan
Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit. -- Napoleon Hill
To judge by what my children are learning in school, you'd think American history was 75 percent slavery and 25 percent everything else (and that 25 percent includes a large dollop of imperialism, racism, sexism and homophobia, leaving little time for Lincoln, Edison, Clay, Holmes, Alcott, Dickinson, Adams, Longfellow or Fulton). -- Mona Charen
Einstein is loved because he is gentle, respected because he is wise. Relativity being not for most of us, we elevate its author to a position somewhere between Edison, who gave us a tangible gleam, and God, who gave us the difficult dark and the hope of penetrating it. -- E. B. White
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. -- Thomas A. Edison
M. A. Rosanoff: Mr. Edison, please tell me what laboratory rules you want me to observe. Edison: There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish somep'n! -- Thomas A. Edison
He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions. -- Charles Edison
Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts proved unavailing, he would say, "No, I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.". -- Thomas A. Edison
I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system. -- Aaron Patzer

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