Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters, when he rebukes them they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweed before a gale.Book of Isaiah 17:14 NIV
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. … I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.Nikola Tesla, as quoted in The New York Times (19 October 1931)