I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.

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

Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows of A's, B's, and X's and Y's ... scatter a mess of flyspecks over them, and then give you an answer that's all wrong!

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Let the public throw bouquets to the inventors and in time we will all be happy.