Frasi di Thomas Alva Edison
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Thomas Alva Edison è stato un inventore e imprenditore statunitense.



Fu il primo imprenditore che seppe applicare i principi della produzione di massa al processo dell'invenzione. Era considerato uno dei più prolifici progettisti del suo tempo, avendo ottenuto il record di 1.093 brevetti registrati a suo nome, in tutto il mondo, inclusi Stati Uniti, Regno Unito, Francia e Germania.

Diede origine alla Motion Picture Patents Company , compagnia formata dall'unione delle nove maggiori case di produzione cinematografiche dell'epoca. La rivista statunitense Life, in un'edizione speciale doppia, mise Edison al primo posto tra le "100 persone più importanti negli ultimi 1000 anni", evidenziando che la sua lampada a incandescenza "illumina il mondo". Sebbene altri, Heinrich Göbel e Alessandro Cruto nel 1880, l'avessero preceduto con minor successo, fu Edison che riuscì a commercializzare e diffondere la sua versione della lampada a incandescenza. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. Febbraio 1847 – 18. Ottobre 1931
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Thomas Alva Edison Frasi e Citazioni

“Inquietudine è scontento – e il malcontento è la prima necessità del progresso. Mostratemi un uomo completamente soddisfatto: vi mostrerò un fallimento.”

Origine: Da Thomas A. Edison e Dagobert D. Runes, The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison, 1948, p. 110.

“Chiunque controlli il cinema, controlla il mezzo più potente di penetrazione delle masse!”

Origine: Citato in Bruno Amatucci, Cinema – Il sogno continua, Agiscuola, Perugia, 1989.

“Il genio è per l'1% ispirazione e per il 99% traspirazione.”

dall'intervista all'Harpers Monthly, 1932
Variante: Il genio è per l'1% ispirazione e per il 99% sudore.

“Il valore di un'idea sta nel metterla in pratica.”

Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 117, p. 183.

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Thomas Alva Edison: Frasi in inglese

“I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.”

John Burroughs, in "Religious Contrasts : Letters of Pantheist and a Churchman", in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 128, No. 4 (October 1921), p. 520.
Misattributed

“During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple.”

On his years of research in developing the electric light bulb, as quoted in "Talks with Edison" by George Parsons Lathrop in Harper's magazine, Vol. 80 (February 1890), p. 425.
Contesto: During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem. … I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament.... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

As quoted in Edison & Ford Quote Book (2003) edited by Edison & Ford Winter Estates.
Date unknown

“To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.”

When Thomas Edison visited the Eiffel Tower during the 1889 World's Fair, he signed the guestbook with this message, as quoted in The Tallest Tower by Joseph Harris, p. 95.
1800s

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

This is presented as a statement of 1877, as quoted in From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison (2007) by Deborah Headstrom-Page, p. 22.
1800s

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

As quoted in: [J. L.] Elkhorne. Edison — The Fabulous Drone, in 73 Vol. XLVI, No. 3 (March 1967) http://www.arimi.it/wp-content/73/03_March_1967.pdf, p. 52
Disputed

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

As quoted in An Enemy Called Average (1990) by John L. Mason, p. 55.
Date unknown

“I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.”

As quoted in Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind : The Romantic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor (1931) by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ch. 25 : Edison's Views on Life — His Philosophy and Religion, p. 293.
1930s

“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

As quoted in Motivating Humans : Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs (1992) by Martin E. Ford, p. 17.
Date unknown
Variante: If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.

“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. … I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”

In conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone (1931); as quoted in Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh (1987) by James Newton, p. 31.

“I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it.”

As quoted in American Greats (1999) Edited by Robert A. Wilson and Stanley Marcus, p. 70.
Date unknown

“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”

As quoted in Artifacts : An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley (2001) by Christine Finn. p. 90.
Date unknown

“Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!”

As quoted in Tesla : The Modern Sorcerer (1999) by Daniel Blair Stewart, p. 411.
Date unknown
Variante: Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I have stolen a lot myself. But at least I know how to steal.

“I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt”

The Freethinker (1970), G.W. Foote & Company, Volume 90, p. 147.
Date unknown

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”

As quoted in Behavior-Based Robotics (1998) by Ronald C. Arkin. p. 8.
Date unknown

“We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.”

As quoted in Golden Book (April 1931), according to Stevenson's Book of Quotations (Cassell 3rd edition 1938) by Burton Egbert Stevenson.
1930s

“So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake … Religion is all bunk.”

As quoted in What on Earth is an Atheist! (1972) by Madalyn Murray O'Hair, p. 251.
Date unknown

“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”

As quoted in Thomas Alva Edison : Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life (1908) by Francis Arthur Jones, p. 14.
1900s

“There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.”

Sir Joshua Reynolds. Edison liked the quote and posted it around his factory.
Misattributed

“During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem. … I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament.... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.”

On his years of research in developing the electric light bulb, as quoted in "Talks with Edison" by George Parsons Lathrop in Harper's magazine, Vol. 80 (February 1890), p. 425.
Variant:
Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. … All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple.
As quoted in Makers of the Modern World : The Lives of Ninety-two Writers, Artists, Scientists, Statesmen, Inventors, Philosophers, Composers, and Other Creators who Formed the Pattern of Our Century (1955) by Louis Untermeyer, p. 227.
1800s

“I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.”

Diary entry, as quoted in Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison's Mother (2007) by Scott Teel, p. 12
Date unknown

“We really haven't got any great amount of data on the subject, and without data how can we reach any definite conclusions? All we have — everything — favors the idea of what religionists call the "Hereafter."”

Science, if it ever learns the facts, probably will find another more definitely descriptive term.

As quoted in Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind : The Romantic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor (1931) by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Ch. 25 : Edison's Views on Life — His Philosophy and Religion, p. 295
1930s

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