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«Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
adaptation, adaptations, keep on, lookout, successfully
«The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.»
«I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
«If there is a way to do it better...find it.»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
«Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent»
«Religion is all bunk.»
«I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God»
«Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.»
«The ideas I use are mostly the ideas of people who don't develop them»
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
(Inventor)
«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.»
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