thomas Edison

“I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.”

“I’m proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.”  [in the June 8, 1915 issue of The New York Times]

“Results!  Why, man I have gotten a lot of results.  I know several thousand things that won't work.”

“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man--and I will show you a failure.”

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

“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”

“The inventor tries to meet the demand of a crazy civilization.”

“There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. What man's mind can create, man's character can control.”

“We do not know one millionth of one percent about anything.”