The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world.

My mother was the making of me.

There is time for everything.

When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.

A reporter called on Edison to interview him about a substitute for lead in the manufacture of storage batteries that the scientist was seeking. Edison informed the man that he had made 20,000 experiments but none had worked. "Aren't you discouraged by all this waste of effort?" the reporter asked. Edison: "Waste! There's nothing wasted. I have discovered 20,000 things that won't work."