The Last Days Of Night Quotes
"People don’t know what they want until you show it to them." - Steve Jobs
"Hell, there are no rules here—we’re trying to accomplish something." - Thomas Edison, Harper’s Magazine, September 1932
"It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant." - James Watson, Co-discoverer of DNA
"One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid." - James Watson, Co-discoverer of DNA
"I have not failed. I’ve just found ten thousand ways that don’t work." - Thomas Edison
"I can always hire mathematicians, but they can’t hire me." - Thomas Edison
"Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification—the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit." - Karl Popper
"Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: There will always be some who misunderstand you." - Karl Popper
"The product of their own scribblings seemed only to confuse them further."
"Nobody knows where electrical energy comes from. For us mere mortals, all we know is how to make the stuff."
"Alternating current isn’t just better technology. It’s better business."
"Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers."
"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation."
"America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men."
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly."
"I don’t think you liked the party." – Agnes Huntington
"You’re going to devour him. He’s too naïve. Too innocent." – Paul
"The transactional circle on which the whole world spins." – Agnes Huntington
"Be alone—that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born." – Nikola Tesla
"In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself." – Bill Gates
"Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy’s staying alive." – Friedrich Nietzsche
"No matter how many instances of white swans we have observed, that does not justify the inference that all swans are white." – Karl Popper
"Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless." – Thomas Edison
"Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward, logical manner imagined by outsiders." – James Watson
"He did not imagine that there remained any end to this story that would not involve the brutal dissolution of his law firm."
"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."
"Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you, because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not."
"Everybody steals in science and industry. I’ve stolen a lot myself. But I know how to steal. They don’t know how to steal."
"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."
"I believe it is worthwhile trying to discover more about the world, even if this only teaches us how little we know."
"The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams."
"Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them."
"We can’t blame the technology when we make mistakes."
"The most dangerous enemy that Thomas Edison will ever face is Thomas Edison."
"Competition does no one any good. A friendly monopoly, on the other hand…"
"Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome."
"It only gets hard if you want to get it done a bit faster."
"You bury a penny, and in a thousand years you’ll have a fortune."
"The future you’re fighting for, it belongs to the moneymen. Not the inventors."
"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."
"At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes."
"You believed you were hiring an apostate. What you were actually hiring was a Trojan horse."
"Poor people all think they deserve to be rich. Rich people live every day with the uneasy knowledge that we do not."
"The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it."
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."
"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."
"In those days when the comparatively recent discovery of electricity and other kindred mysteries of Nature seemed to open paths into the region of miracle, it was not unusual for the love of science to rival the love of woman in its depth and absorbing energy."
"We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims."
"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this—you haven’t."
"Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday."