“We owe a lot to Thomas Edison-if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.”
“ There's a poster with Thomas Edison's quote: GENIUS IS 1 PERCENT INSPIRATION AND 99 PERCENT PERSPIRATION.”
“My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had consisted entirely of free time.”
“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 days work in the last fifty years.”
“When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.”
“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 Fucking Edison.”