"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
- Thomas [Alva] Edison (1847 - 1931)

"I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill."
- Thomas [Alva] Edison (1847 - 1931)

"I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."
- Thomas [Alva] Edison (1847 - 1931)

"I start where the last man left off."
- Thomas [Alva] Edison (1847 - 1931)

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
- Thomas [Alva] Edison (1847 - 1931)

"Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress....Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure....Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
- Thomas [Alva] Edison (1847 - 1931)

"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."
- Thomas [Alva] Edison (1847 - 1931)

"Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character. Someday man will imprison the power of the sun, release atomic power, and harness the rise and fall of the tides."
- Thomas [Alva] Edison (1847 - 1931)