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It has been just so in all my ...

It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-'Bugs'as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I am so deaf I am debarred fro...

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

No, I haven't failed thousands...

No, I haven't failed thousands of times. On the contrary, I have successfully eliminated thousands of ideas that do not work!

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I find out what the world need...

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

Fish seem to be rather conserv...

Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades В- I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

Smoking too much makes me nerv...

Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

A lawsuit is the suicide of ti...

A lawsuit is the suicide of time.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

The roots of tobacco plants mu...

The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

We tried some experiments in m...

We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

During all those years of expe...

During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

Perhaps dandruff is the excret...

Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind В- the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I speak without exaggeration w...

I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament. . . . Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

Sticking to it is the genius....

Sticking to it is the genius.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I am long on ideas, but short ...

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I am more of a sponge than an ...

I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

A failure teaches you that som...

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

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I never view mistakes as failu...

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

This problem, once solved, wil...

This problem, once solved, will be simple.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

Invention is 10% inspiration a...

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

I have not failed. I have succ...

I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.

Tomas Edison 442 quotes

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