Famous quotes containing the words edison and/or patent:
“Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.”
—Thomas Alva Edison (18471931)
“The cigar-box which the European calls a lift needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like the mans patent purgeit works”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)